May112006Taste of Things to Come?
Looks like Adobe isn’t wasting any time expanding their product lines and jumping full force into the Web development arena. They’ve just introduced a new “framework” named Spry (more info here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/.) This is a JavaScript library that lets you create immediate, dynamic effects on a Web page using a technology known as “Ajax”—so you can get information from a server (including photos) and update the content of a Web page without having to reload the page. If you’ve seen Google Maps, you’ve seen Ajax. Adobe has a few demonstrations apps so you can see what it does:
Of course, for Dreamweaver users this is a taste of what you’ll undoubtedly see in Dreamweaver 9. Thankfully, this means that Adobe will finally put to rest the archaic, out-of-date JavaScript behaviors that have sat nearly untouched for the past few versions of Dreamweaver.
