Welcome to the Web, Adobe!
Today Adobe put out their latest version of the Creative Suite, version 2 and it seems like they are starting to get it.
GoLive CS now sports some interesting features with predefined CSS block objects, yes I know not each and every element should be described as a block object, but I think this is just naming names here, they need to call it something. Web professional may cringe over the thought that they use Opera again for their CSS rendering, but hey, if you got the money, why not burn it and use one of the less favorable rendering engines? Good take I must say, if it works on ol' Opera, it's gonna work on every browser (Internet Explorer is not considered a browser anymore, rather as a way to share your sensitive corporate data with the masses). Don't get me wrong here, I'm all positive about that, I just have to get my hands on the update, and if anyone from Adobe is reading this, I just need an upgrade license from my previous CS Pro!
Photoshop CS 2, Some nice stuff that I've been doing with workarounds for quite some time are now a snap, perspective cloning stamp and all sorts of nifty little features that my lure some more matte painters to Adobe's products (and what else is out there for us? Eclipse? No thanks!). They updated their fancy file browser to look more sane and added a nifty way that lets you browse your image libraries and lets you buy stock images right from the desktop, called Adobe Bridge. Now if I only would remember where I've seen that before?! And how long had professionals demanded for that... seems to be coming now. And it also lets you get going across Adobe Applications with your profiles, hopefully that'll work better than the last version of CS.
It's definitely going to be interesting how Adobe Bridge will compare to my iPhoto / XHTML solution that I use to index my texture library with about 20.000+ images, I'll keep you on the bleeding edge about that.
Somehow Adobe needs stupid little flash flicks on each product page that I can't even choose NOT to play, they take ages to load and slow the whole process down here, I'm not liking this at all. So I'll call it a day and tell you more later!
2 Comments:
I didn't get the "Web professional may cringe over the thought that they use Opera again for their CSS rendering" slur. Opera has the best CSS 2.1 support out there. A while back I would have agreed on JavaScript/DOM but Opera has always been great on CSS and consistently scored #1 or #2 on CSS tests.
Dear *Anonymous*,
the down-point of Opera is, that it somehow manages to display CSS differently than all the other browsers.
So when I do a design and test it on Safari and Firefox, I also have to check if it works with Opera and sometimes make changes to the CSS so it works too with Opera. It's gotten better over the time to the recent version, but has still some annoying *features* with relative block alignment, either they improved or I got better in working around it.If you can make your CSS look good in Opera, it will look good in all the others too is rather safe to say /assume.
From my experience I still think it's a mistake not to base it on open source. Just look at Firefox (gecko) or Safari (Konqueror browser), they aren't the leaders for spending millions of $$$ but for using brains.
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