http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/ Adobe Developer Relations - Dreamweaver en Copyright 2008 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:52:15 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.16 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Pandora goes desktop with their music service using Adobe AIR. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/06/pandora_desktop.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/06/pandora_desktop.html Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:52:15 -0800 The annual Adobe MAX conference will be in our neighborhood this year - the Moscone Center/Marriott Hotel in San Francisco - from November 16-19th, and registration just opened today so you can reserve your seat ASAP. There's been a lot of work put in already towards making MAX 08 the event to remember in 2008, with a few late-breaking changes to note for this year's conference: A new 'Envision' track for movers and shakers evaluating the Adobe Platform roadmap 30%... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/05/max_2008_regist.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/05/max_2008_regist.html Wed, 28 May 2008 12:00:28 -0800 Dreamweaver's 10 years old this year, and to celebrate the decade we decided to make some big changes, and public ones at that. So we're releasing a public beta of the current DW build (code named Stiletto), and letting you get your hands on it to see where things are headed. Design is not static these days, but stateful, and dynamic. Forms proactively validate themselves in modern designs, and user interfaces intertwine dynamically-loaded data with application-like interaction models. Being born... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/05/dreamweaver_pub.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/05/dreamweaver_pub.html Mon, 26 May 2008 20:55:55 -0800 I'll be presenting on web design best practices/standards (along with a sneak peek of the next version of Dreamweaver) today @1:15pm at the WebVisions conference in Portland, should you be attending. Swing by, get an early look at what we've been working on back in the Dreamlabs, along with a lot of thoughts as to WHY we've been doing what we've doing with Dreamweaver. Aside from my own plug, the WebVisions track/session schedule looks great, with a speaker list that... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/05/dreamweaver_nex_1.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/05/dreamweaver_nex_1.html Thu, 22 May 2008 09:22:37 -0800 I recently got a preview of WebAssist's new product, Menu Writer - which looks to be quite a fine Dreamweaver extension for creating and managing one of the most frequently used interface patterns- drop-down menus. Although there are a lot of menu solutions available, they've done a great job of distilling them down to a nice wizard-based approach that makes it very easy to create menu-based navigation for your projects. Some highlights I noticed: Menu Writer pulls in existing directory... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/05/webassist_menu.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/05/webassist_menu.html Wed, 14 May 2008 12:57:32 -0800 Although we released a Whole Lot of documentation to support Spry 1.6.x along with the framework that illustrates how it can be used responsibly, I still get asked regularly whether Spry can really be used unobtrusively. The first thing developers usually notice when looking at Spry is the spry:* custom attributes sprinkled throughout the sample code, but there are certainly more elegant ways to inject those attributes at runtime above and beyond those brute force examples. If you have similar... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/05/unobtrusive_spr.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/05/unobtrusive_spr.html Mon, 12 May 2008 17:26:54 -0800 MXNA wasn't the only thing down in recent weeks, many Adobe staffers with blogs on the venerable old weblogs.macromedia.com server also had their blogs and archives inaccessible during the same stretch (and for the same reasons), myself included. Good news- my blog is back online again and should be for the near future. I'm still weighing my long-term options for migrating off the old Macromedia weblog server, but it's nice to at least have the old, familiar site up and... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/05/back_online.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/05/back_online.html Wed, 07 May 2008 13:33:59 -0800 GoLive will no longer be sold as of today- long-rumored but now official. Here's my thoughts on the news, and some pointers to ease your transition over to Dreamweaver. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/04/farewell_golive.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/04/farewell_golive.html Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:10:50 -0800 http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/03/random_news_ite.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/03/random_news_ite.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:35:08 -0800 Web developer Steve Stringer contacted me last week, and was interested in a point-counterpoint discussion on the merits of unobtrusive JavaScript (or lack thereof), and both myself and author Dave McFarland (Dreamweaver MX - The Missing Manual) took him up on it. You can read the results at Steve's StringFoo blog here - and by all means please jump into the comments if you have strong opinions one way or the other. (I'll refrain from further commentary here, as I... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/03/pros_and_cons_o.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/03/pros_and_cons_o.html Community Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:56:57 -0800 First - and probably most surprising - the Internet Explorer 8 team just announced the reversal of the year. Instead of IE8 rendering in IE7 compatibility mode by default (and requiring a meta tag/header to 'turn on' IE8 compliance), the IE team just announced that IE8 will interpret web content in the most forward-looking, standards-compliant way that it can. The community has been very vocal about this, so it's great to see the IE team not just listen, but respond... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/03/2_bits_of_brows.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/03/2_bits_of_brows.html Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:50:26 -0800 Fox Sports implements their new photo galleries in Spry. Trés plush! Spry http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/02/fox_sports_adds.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/02/fox_sports_adds.html Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:40:45 -0800 So you like those fancy-schmancy Spry accordions, but have the need to deep-link into closed accordion panels from an external page? That's a pretty obvious use case usability-minded designers (and their clients) may require, and Dreamweaver and PHP guru David Powers has a great tutorial on just that topic on his Foundation Dreamweaver blog - "Linking to a non-default panel". If you're strictly using the visual Spry tools in Dreamweaver to author, you're probably missing a lot of the hidden... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/02/spry_-_linking.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/02/spry_-_linking.html Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:19:11 -0800 Headed to SXSW '08 this year? I know I am, and I generally try to hit any/all WaSP-related events open to the public as I'm a bit obsessed with standards, personally speaking. Fortunately this year there's more than just the annual meeting, the Web Standards Project are also hosting a barbecue event right across from the main event hall. Because there's so much going on in the world wide web today (IE8, HTML5), this year we're doing an additional event:... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/02/wasp_bike-hugge.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/02/wasp_bike-hugge.html Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:59:54 -0800 If you've been using Dreamweaver for Ajax work recently, you may have been underwhelmed with DW's current code-level support for common JS frameworks and libs. Should that be the case, you'll want to be praising LA developer (and old-skool Dreamweaver kung-fu master) Chris Charlton postehaste for releasing two DW extensions to enable support for Prototype.js and JQuery into Dreamweaver (MX through CS3). You can get hold of the beta releases and view example screencasts at Chris' site - xtnd.us -... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/01/ajax_framework.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/01/ajax_framework.html Dreamweaver Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:25:26 -0800