Don Xml's Grok This

Microsoft recently release the first public beta of their Expression Interactive Design tool (aka Sparkle), and I finally can get a chance to play with it and publicly talk about it.  The most important thing to remember with this tool is that it is not geared towards the developer.  The code name Cider product is the analogous tool on ...

One of my first blog posts (way back in April 2003 and on the old DotNet Weblogs site, now Weblogs @ ASP.Net) was called Pet Peeve – Using HTML Tables to Control Web Page Layout.  Since that early post I really haven’t seen much headway made in the .Net camp to oust the Table camp and replace them with the CSS Camp.  There ...

Hmm, just heard about this news.   Does this show how scared Adobe (and maybe Macromedia) is of Avalon and XAML?  Over the last couple years there has been 2 major camps within Adobe, the PDF camp and the SVG camp, and both didn’t seem to like each other.  Some Macromedia employees have been known to slam SVG (although ...

I haven’t seen this posted anywhere else, and I found out about it via a email sent to one of my old accounts that I’ve never used for my other Adobe stuff, so I guess I can talk about it.  It looks like Adobe is looking for folks to beta test their XML/PDF Form Designer.  I don’t know anything else besides what is on ...