We’re bringing Ajax to Dreamweaver! 
October 7th, 2007
It’s been a long road to bring visual tooling to Ajax developer’s for us, but we did it. I’m really excited at what we’ve been able to do with Dreamweaver and our components! It’s long been a passion of mine to make Ajax development easier. You shouldn’t have to be a Javascript rockstar and phd to put a rich datagrid in your web page should you? We tried with various versions of Netbeans and Visual Web Pack but with very limited success and it was a pain.
I’ve seen some banter, like we all have, about Dreamweaver not being _real_ IDE. But I think the ability to layout rich interfaces by dragging and dropping in components should not be dismissed. It’s very helpful to be able to quickly mock up a functional page and essentially prototype your app. The ability to modify elements of an Ajax UI without writing code also enables better workflow between the developer and designer, or just makes life easier for a “devigner”.
Check our Mike’s demo embedding the Nitobi Ajax Grid in a web page and binding it to a MySQL datasource in minutes:
“…Nitobi’s Complete UI suite makes it simple for designers, with various levels a coding background, to work with Dreamweaver and AJAX to build advanced user interface elements into a web page.” said Mark Hilton, vice president of Adobes Creative Pro Business Unit.“Nitobi”s Complete UI is a powerful set of components that will give Dreamweaver users the ability to present data in an engaging format in a fraction of the time….Dreamweaver professionals looking to enhance their user interface functionality should turn to Nitobi with confidence.” states Michael Lekse, Vice President of Sales and Services at WebAssist.
“One of the coolest bit of news I heard at MAX was that Ajax gurus Nitobi have released Complete UI 2007, their Ajax UI component library, with full support for Dreamweaver included” said Scott Fegette Dreamweaver Technical Product Manager.
The boys at Ajaxian commented on it too. But enough about what other people think go download the components and let us know what you think! This was all rolled into our CompleteUI Q3 release we also fixed a lot of bugs and added some cool new features to Grid. Big shout out Mike, Dave, James, Andrew, Ryan and the rest of the team who made this release happen!
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October 8th, 2007 at 6:58 am
Thumbs up on such a good effort!! Look forward for some more stuff.
October 8th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Very impressive indeed.I believe it brings real value, although it is yet another trial to simplify a complex process. I ntresting enough i would like to draw your attention to yet another .NET alternative that is trying to achieve the same.VWG replaces the obsolete paradigms of ASP.NET in both design-time and run-time which were designed for developing sites, with WinForms methodologies, which were designed for developing applications. Thus enabling designer that was designed for application interfaces (WinForms designer) instead of a word documents (ASP.NET designer). This provides the developer with an extremely efficient way to design interfaces using drag and drop instead of hand coding HTML. Worth a look at Visual Webgui site.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
@Gautam Thanks! We’re really stoked, and looking to provide tooling like this Eclipse too.
@navi cool! thanks for the heads up, I’ll be sure to check it out.