Suggestion: actual color in code editor

Greetings.
Please bare with me here.
While writting css - especially in bigger projects - i found it a demanding task to over look the colors in my css file.
In firebug you can easely see the exact color of a given class/id. Yet I am not always checking firebug... so in my humble opinion it would be a great feature to see the color live, while editing your precious color. Especially now with css3 up & coming...
Is there any possibility in the next update the Dreamweaver team adds this Wonderful & I repeat Wonderful with capital W, yet so effective feature?
Even more so, it would be awesome to have a small color box fe. 5x5pixels that shows the actual color.
I vote yes.
please make this lively.
Thanks

Murray *ACP* wrote:
However, if you are on the Mac side like myself, I would recommend filing a bug report because there is a bug where the preview color is wrong and stays at black
Which version DW and how are you seeing this?
CS5 (11.0->11.0.3) ever since I installed it on 10.6.3. Confirmed by Randy and I submitted bug reports after each subsequent patch that failed to fix it.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/650242

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