i read with a grin the release of adobe dreamweaver 8. i’ve already completely transitions to the new media publishing systems that both wordpress or mambo offer. these web applications, based on open standard mySQL and PHP, offer tremendous advantages to any adobe breeze application, or say even adobe golive application.
where HTML or XML editors are going is away from the world wide web, and to the handset, where i don’t know of any 3G or 4G backend applications. i’m sure at the upcoming CTIA wireless IT and entertainment 2005 conference at the end of september 2005, they’re be all kinds of new applications, but until then maybe that might be the singular use for golive or dreamweaver. now adobe flash will continue to reign as a front end to a database or image server, but what good is a non bookmarkable file format (.swf)? i cannot usually even read a flash based webpage, since the fonts are hard coded into the elements, and i run my display at something larger than the designed 1024 x 768 resolutions (i’m usually at 1600 x 1200).
sites have become to complex to administer or author using text based tools. the web is about information, and both mambo and wordress offer a idealized platform for collaboration and sharing, unfathomable a few years ago.