MAX2005 Day Four

Tuesday, Anaheim
Cloud and Showers. About 16C

The guy in the suit comes from the Meet Your Match campaign.

So the big thing today was the general session. I had a chance to talk to Macromedia's Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch today.

More good ideas and information on the Flash explosion on consumer devices, specifically cell phones.


AfterEffects 7 (yes Adobe) was launched or first pubic showing today. The product manager for AE and macromedia productmanger for Flash from Macromedia were on stage showing how the two work together.

Dreamweaver and Flash Video
Scott Fegette - Product Manager Developer Relations Macromedia

Got to understand the new flow for Flash Video or FLV handling inside either Dreamweaver - read no Flash required - and also in Flash authoring tool.

Two formats supported: Streaming and Progressive.

In Dreamweaver
Insert: Flash Video.
You can use different skins to allow for different views. Simple skin and controls best for small video.
Nice detect size to correct or also resize to constrain. Auto rewind and play also can be selected. To see you must preview in browser.

Right now I am in a sneek peek on pre alpha software.

Sneek Peek Notes

Captivate
Adding library, images and FLV.
Breakout on timeline that resembles visio inside powerpoint. Image chages jump to Fireworks to increase speed. Native export to Flash 8.

Flex
Bug accesses. Integrated with Mercury QuickTest Pro.
Record: records everything being done. This can be replayed and tested in MQTP. It is a script that is used.

If you compare two phones on a sales RIA, you may have 50. How do you remember what it is that you compared? Its is tagged.

Designers can change what they want and the scripts will work throughout the development lifecyle - negating any QA involvement.

The script of a run of choosing two phones to compare in the product can be re-run to compare.

Combining co-browing with custom collaboration button will all be automated. With the chat function two can shop together and chat back and forth on products being compared, put in baskets etc. Full collaboration tools based on simple application design paletts.

No code required to build this.

Online Seminars coming out of MAX2005

• Studio
  8 Online Live Seminar Series (Oct
  26 - Dec 8)



• Introduction
  to Breeze Online Live Seminar Series (Oct
  19)


• See all events ›

Zorn

Zorn is the Flex 2 test name. More at labs.macromedia.com
Grab, use it, love it.



Dreamweaver Sneek Peek

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