<b>Macromedia Announces New Studio 8 Suite</b>
Go on over and check out the new Studio 8 suite, which will replace the MX 2004 Suite... it includes:

- Dreamweaver 8
- Flash Professional 8
- Fireworks 8
- Contribute 3
- Flash Paper 2

So far, it seems the notable changes in DW itself are PHP 5.0 support, enahanced XML tools, enhanced code view tools, as well as CSS enhancements.
Check it out below...

www.macromedia.com/software/studio/

<b>Connman21</b>

www.conncreativemedia.com
DWMX2004 | ASP/VB | IIS5 | Access/SQL2000

Edited by - connman21 on 08 Aug 2005 16:01:21

fireworks 8 looks sweet

regards

Dave Thomas
<b>DMX Zone Manager</b>

yep, I read this announcement about 27 minutes after buying MDM Zinc v2.1.16 which will probably not work in flash 8.

still, you live and learn eh?

on the upside though, the swf metadata seems quite interesting - the ability for search engines to spider flash data. Look out for www.flash.google.com in the near future <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

I did notice however that director is not being updated - its still in director MX 2004. Increasingly, it looks like the director developers are being left behind, and more emphasis being made on the flash/fireworks side of things - is this one of the Adobe strategies to erode the inerest in director in favour of flash? There are still quite a few things that director can do that flash cannot though, hence the need to buy Zinc today, but if flash could do stuff like read access databases, and write xml files to hard drive, then that would be a definate reason to upgrade, but at the minute, the price of the upgrade does not really justify the extra features of the new version of flash for me.