Dreamweaver CS4 Public Beta
Monday, May 26th, 2008
The Dreamweaver team has been hard at work since the launch of CS3 to bring you…drum roll please…CS4!
That’s right! A bright and shiny new version is available as a public beta. Also available are the Bridge CS4, Fireworks CS4, and Soundbooth betas.
The biggest changes are in the interface. The OWL interface that you’ve come to know and love in Photoshop are now in Dreamweaver, as are a host of other refinements and improvements. My favorite UI enhancements by far are the Vertical Split View and Split Code View–the combination of which finally lets you work on the header and body of a document at the same time the way God intended. After all, why would she give us wide-screen monitors if she didn’t want us to see two pages side by side?
Also notable in the new Dreamweaver CS4 are the following:
- Javascript Extractor - provides an easy to make your JavaScript unobtrusive by externalizing it and tying it to watcher events. This is very cool. (Note: Read all about Unobtrusive JavaScript in this post.)
- Integrated Subversion Client - ties an SVN client into the site functionality.
- Related Documents - provides instant access to any file that is immediately linked from the document you’re working in
- New Spry Validation & Widgets - new and improved are the Spry validation widgets for passwords and radio groups, along with integrated support for the latest version of Spry.
Click the links below to get your copy hot off the digital presses:
Please direct any feedback, bug reports, and feature requests to the Dreamweaver Public Beta Forums.
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