I'd like to play around a bit with pure web app programming.
Coming from a VB6 background, some features I'd like are:
If we decide to do our next app as a web app, price isn't terribly important (a better IDE being more productive and pleasant to use).
Update: I'm looking for something like (what I hear you get with) jQuery where there is an underlying framework that takes care of all the browser differences. So I just plop a UI widget (Drop-down combo box, etc.) onto the IDE and the framework takes care of the javascript, etc. dealing with all the variations of browsers and O/S's.
I think you'll struggle by starting off with those requirements.
Probably the closest thing to what you're after is Dreamweaver, or if you're more comfortable with MS products you could try Expression Web (never used it myself). Personally I use Komodo Edit, the latest version has support for HTML5 and CSS3, and there's a paid version which adds a number of features, but neither are IDEs like you're (apparently) expecting.
In response to your edit: Komodo Edit has built in support for jQuery (ie. it offers code completion and tooltips), and you'll probably get a long way with a CSS framework (or even an HTML5 one) for ironing out the browser differences, but primarily front end web development is about editing text files and looking at them in browsers. The sort of things that IDEs are generally helpful for are not really major factors.
Further edit: Also, if you want a JavaScript widget framework, you probably should look at one of:
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