Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know the underlying language of the web, HTML, has begun to (finally) evolve once again with the browsers slowly beginning to support pieces of HTML5 and CSS3. With the release of Dreamweaver CS5, the world’s leading web authoring tool has made huge strides in embracing the evolution of the web, providing an unparalleled ability to style themes for any PHP-based CMS system (WordPress, Drupal and Joomla out of the box, as well as home-grown PHP-based systems). However, for those who have already upgraded and who want to leverage HTML5 and CSS3, you’ve no doubt found that the only “apparent” support for HTML5 in Dreamweaver CS5 is the addition of the HTML5 doctype in the New Document dialog. But now, that’s all changed!

During the keynote session at the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco, Adobe’s CTO, Kevin Lynch, demonstrated an extension to Dreamweaver CS5 which not only adds the new HTML5 semantic elements, but also properties for CSS3, to the authoring environment. With this addition, Dreamweaver CS5 users are provided with code hinting for HTML5 and CSS3 in Code View.

Of course, HTML5 and CSS3 are not “finished” yet, and as such, the team can’t “know” what’s going to be in the final specification. Therefore, the extension provides support for the elements and properties that are “the most complete” at this time. In other words, the elements and properties that, (more…)

Over the past couple of weeks, I have really resisted weighing in on the Flash vs HTML5 pissing match that has preoccupied the blogosphere. As an Adobe employee, I obviously felt the tug to defend my company’s product and perhaps even echo Lee’s sentiment. But as an advocate of the “standards-based” web – having spent the majority of my career building HTML authoring tools and evangelizing the power of HTML/CSS/Javascript, I have been enjoying seeing the industry really begin to discuss “what’s next”.

Anyone who knows me (even internally at Adobe), also knows that I am the first person to tell you NOT to build an all Flash site – and don’t use Flash to build your site navigation – or your contact form for that matter. You see, I lived through the stupidity of the “Skip Intro” era – and spent countless hours (more…)

What an amazing couple of weeks! Less than two weeks ago, we announced Creative Suite 5. Of course, you know it was coming – unless you were living under a rock – because we were sneaking videos of myself and my fellow evangelists running all over the planet talking about “something”. It was an amazing press tour – but more fun than talking to the press, was seeing the reaction of our customers that got to see it before anyone else. Naturally, there were a few bumps in the road – including some curious decisions and outbursts of a certain fruit company – but now it’s here!

Creative Suite 5 is shipping!!!

So let’s get this thing cranked up…!

Watching someone install software is even less exciting than watching paint dry – but for any of you who suffered (and there are millions of you out there) through the uninstall/install process of previous versions of Creative Suite,  you can already see that Creative Suite 5 changes the game. (BTW, I would have put that video up as HTML5 video – it’s encoded as H.264 – but then I would also have to encode it into Ogg Theora to be fair AND THEN, I would still have to put it up with a Flash wrapper for the IE crowd… so… I encoded and uploaded once, and delivered in Flash. Guess those of you on the iDevices won’t be able to see it – sorry…)

Now it’s your turn – download the trial or buy/upgrade now – and let us hear from you! After all, we make Creative Suite for you.