Who You Calling A Jesse?

Day 3’s round up is a couple days late due to plane travel and overall being tired. The theme of day 3 for me was the Dreamweaver AJAX conversation and the conversations it created. First off lets start with Dreamweaver 8.

Dreamweaver 8

There were next to no real in depth sessions for Dreamweaver 8 really at all at MAX. That was too bad simply because of all the improvements that the team has done with standards, accessibility, and rendering. CSS is really simple with DW 8 and people need to see that. Steph’s presentation on CSS could have been a 3 hour hands on and it would have filled the room.

Randy Mode Rendering

Well you heard here first, DW 8 rendering is officially named ‘Randy Mode Rendering’ after careful consultation with fellow DWTF member Steph. What is it you ask? It’s a hybrid of IE and standards. As I am starting to figure out, it can really help you cut down on hacks (or maybe I use them too much?) by having decent rendering to remove the reliance on browser testing and you only viewing in one browser. If it renders properly in DW 8 it is likely to render in IE 6 without too much hassle. There are a few things DW 8 does better than IE 6 but it doesn’t appear to be worse. What this has to do with MAX is that I finally got to meet Randy Edmunds, the man behind the rendering and it just popped into my head ;)

AJAX in DW 8-ish?

There was a nicely conducted round table conversation on AJAX and DW 8 on Wednesday morning. The DW team gave a closer look to what they demo’d at the sneak peak and then asked questions about how any future version of DW should handle AJAX. It was pretty informative but I think some work needs to be done on techniques used and such.

Also, there is some potential in Flash 8.5… more on that in a future posting. Shall work on a total summary next week. I need to think a bit on what I got out of the conference. Generally though I met some great people, caught up with some folks I met last year, and left feeling inspired.