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Honing in on browser incompatibility issues in Web development, Adobe Systems on Thursday is announcing CSS Advisor, a Web site that documents these problems and offers solutions.

The site, which goes live on Friday, is geared to users of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and features best practices for Web page development.

“With CSS Advisor, the problem that we set out to solve is that people are wasting a huge amount of time trying to make their pages look the same across different browsers,” said Kenneth Berger, Adobe product manager for the company’s Dreamweaver technology.

CSS Advisor provides a central resource to show developers what they might run into, such as dealing with content overflow on an Internet Explorer page that was not a problem with Firefox, Berger said. Developers can access lists of issues focusing on margins, he said. About 30 browser issues are featured now.

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Developers at Adobe pursued improvements with the number one web development tool by focusing on an issue that has proven a real time waster for developers.

By collaborating with the development community, Adobe believes they have knocked out a problem facing web developers everywhere. Dreamweaver product manager Kenneth Berger talked with WebProNews ahead of the release of the new version about their approach to making CSS an obedient servant to the webmaster.

First the essentials. Dreamweaver 8 is out now, in upgrade and full versions. The product supports multiple technologies a webmaster may have in place to operate a site. In 2007, Adobe will add Dreamweaver 8 support for Windows Vista, and deliver a Mac Universal Binary.

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