More Betas in Labs… Soundbooth CS4, Dreamweaver CS4 and Fireworks CS4. Nice!
Man Adobe is just cranking em out. Labs has fresh new betas of some CS4 applications. The new Fireworks CS4 beta looks especially nice for RIA UI design. Cool features, indeed. I will be checking out the Dreamweaver SVN integration this week, for sure. I have little faith in using Dreamweaver for my dev work, I just like Eclipse and BBEdit too much, I think. We’ll see if this new Dreamweaver CS4 Live View which uses Webkit changes that. I do like that they are willing to support other JS libraries besides Spry. We’ve pretty much standardized on JQuery at work.
Anyway, fire up your pipes and try em out… The Mac version of the Dreamweaver CS4 beta is 252MB! The Mac Fireworks CS4 beta is a whopping 633MB! Best turn off your Last.fm while grabbing that puppy. I won’t be checking the SoundBooth beta… I don’t really touch the audio stuff.
Some things in the new Fireworks:
- New user interface
- CSS-based layouts
- PDF export
- Live Style improvements
- Adobe type engine
- AIR authoring
The new Dreamweaver touts these features:
- Live View
- Related Files
- Code Navigator
- CSS best practices
- Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks
- HTML data sets
- Photoshop Smart Objects
- Subversion integration
- Adobe¬Ć AIR‚Ѣ authoring support
- New user interface
Very nice list of features indeed. A little more on this is available at Scott Fegette’s blog. I will really have to give these a workout. Can’t wait for the Diesel beta! Should be around the corner, I would think.
Posted on May 26, 2008
Dan Jun 22
Wow, sounds pretty exciting, I’m stuck with CS2 so I may be upgrading to this new suite of programs.
Graphic Design Info May 6
After one year I can say, that CS4 rocks.. But Graphic design schools don’t follow adobe products.. I love them – if you know how to work with keyboard shortcuts, then you are fast worker.