Adobe Widget Browser for Dreamweaver CS5
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For years I have enjoyed the Adobe Developer Exchange, a great way to view and install solutions for your projects. Admittedly, not all of the solutions worked out of the box, but it was a great starting block to jump start a stuck project. Â Unfortunetely, some of the moderated exchanges seem to have been...lets say neglected. Â This is not surprising as Adobe suggests the impetuous of their business is switching from Enterprise Applications such as ColdFusion and Flex toward HTML 5 and online publishing. And given this volatility, my company has decided, in the short term, we would develop all our smart phone and tablet applications in HTML rather than Objective C and AJAX or Flex. Â This creates an issue for me because most of my work over the last decade has been heavy in the backend with data warehousing, ColdFusion and Flex frontends. Â Enter the Adobe Widget Browser.
ADOBE (May 9, 2011) The Adobe® Dreamweaver® Widget Browser is an Adobe AIR® application that lets you preview and configure widgets using a visual interface. The Widget Browser solves the problem of having to work with confusing or obscure CSS and JavaScript by providing designers with a tool for editing widget properties to suit their needs.
With the Widget Browser, you can:
- Preview and download all of the OpenAjax widgets available on the Adobe Exchange
- Add widgets to Adobe Dreamweaver so that you can easily insert them in your web pages
- Export and package widgets for use in any other HTML editing tool
The Widget Browser also offers widget developers the ability to make their widgets available to a wider audience.
The Widget Browserâs developer tools let developers package their widgets into a format that they can then upload to the Adobe Exchange. Developers interested in creating a widget package can find more details in the Widget Browser Developer's Guide.
The Widget Browser uses an OpenAjax Alliance XML format as its basis. The OpenAjax Alliance is a group of industry leaders who are helping to define a common way of communicating between frameworks.
The OAA Widget Metadata spec describes how to create the XML file for a widget, as well as a widget's dependencies, markup, and options. Adobe has been a part of the OAA since its inception and has helped to define this specification.
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