Next Dreamweaver - A killer app for HTML/JS/AJAX
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Every once in a while I peek over the fence to see what the HTML/JS camps at Adobe are working on and was I in for a suprise. I really believe that the next Dreamweaver release is a killer app for HTML/JS/AJAX design and development. It is rare for me to label something a killer app but I have never seen first class tooling for html/js like this before.
The team has made several key product decisions, embedding Webkit, that have resulted in some amazing features and workflow for building web pages (dare I call them that anymore). I visited with Scott Fegette and he briefed me on what they were working on and showed a demo he did at Web 2.0 recently. In the demo he previewed a page and then paused JavaScript allowing you to both see and edit the current DOM in place. It is hard to explain but it is like FireBug on steroids and made editing very complex interactivity very easy. The puzzler is that this is just 1 of many new features and workflows for both developers and designers.
More to come!
Ted :)
This sounds very interesting. Hopefully this product will bring some of the AJAX development community back to Dreamweaver. Is there any info on improved AIR support?
well.. let's hope they also improved performance on the Mac platform... ever since switching from Windows to Mac Version Dreamweaver is running slow like an old dog.
Is Adobe going to continue supporting the Spry Framework?
Also, are they going to improve CSS editing and cross browser testing at all?
I have the chance to test this application in a working environment, and I can say it has some options that really makes web development easier ! Also, to answer steh, i didn't feel the application running slow on my Mac.
Great. I guess that means they're starting over? No offense to a perfectly working product--but man, talk about a ton of stuff crammed in there.
Looking forward to it. Though, I do sorta wonder why it's always the "next" version of a product that's so great?
It would be really nice if the old DW was streamlined and cleaned out. I would also like to see a re-design of the UI. Not a complete overhaul but just to get the DW engineers thinking... :)
The most important thing for DW to add is source code control, at least subversion. I still use it regularly for project that I edit through ftp but more and more of my projects require subversion support which is available through Aptana and Netbeans and through tools like BBedit and Textmate.
I'm glad to see the debugging support, with firebug, netbeans and aptana all doing that now I think it has become part of the baseline.
Ted- glad you liked the demo! Although we're keeping details to in-person demos only for the moment, I promise we'll have a lot more to talk about in short order.
@ks: We'll absolutely be supporting the Spry framework going forward. The framework is developed on a parallel, but independent track from Dreamweaver, but there's some interesting twists planned between the two in the next DW release, too.
@Phillip: why's the 'next' version of something so great? Because it's usually addressing a shortcoming (or shortcomingS) in the version you've got. I won't say we're starting over with Dreamweaver- as you said, it's working well now, but when a product's been on the market for 10 years, it does require a bit of a 'reset' of sorts, and in some cases - radical change, too. Hopefully we've done a bit of both this time, but keep posted and let us know... ;-)
any chance we can get dreamweaver as a plugin for eclipse ??