How to dynamically switch PageLayout and MasterPage of SharePoint Publishing page?

Question

To improve both the editing and displaying experience of SharePoint WCM Publishing pages I would like to be able to switch to a special set of Masterpage/PageLayout when in edit

Answer 1

The definitive answer to this question is now "baked" into a product which we call DualLayout for SharePoint! Our approach solves all your SharePoint WCM design nightmare:

• Introduce an additional view for the end user, besides the WCM edit and display views
• Never have clashes between SharePoint styles and your own styles
• Make lean and mean "view" master pages and page layouts that don't interfer with the WCM master pages and page layouts
• Make super-light pages for the end-user, remove all SharePoint specific page clutter
• Improve the performance of the pages because we only have a minimal set of controls to render in the end user view

Check it out at http://www.macaw.nl/Het+Bedrijf/Producten/Macaw+DualLayout+for+SharePoint.aspx, see the blog posts in the blog roll of that page for detailed background information.