ATTN: CS5.5 Introduced

In case you didn't know...
http://adobe.ly/dR5sir

Iain71 wrote:
I've just seen this too.
The thing that really caught my eye in DW 5.5, as someone who is hopefully pretty decent by now at building websites, but not from a coding background were:
jQuery Mobile Integration and PhoneGap, here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html
In my time I have worked through some iOS development tutorial books - the Apres Learn Objective C and Learn iOS development books - but because I don't come from a coding background, did find it a bit of a struggle.
But from looking at the above, it kinda looked as though you could design and build apps in from within DW - am I getting that right?
Now obviously there's a lot more to it, and like a lot of this stuff a clear advantage if you do come from a coding background, but I'd certainly be interested in having a look at it again in an environment I'm a lot more comfortable and familiar with.
While I agree with your comments about PhoneGap that does have some interest, the JQuery additions put into question the future of Spry.  Is Adobe making the investment in JQuery and retiring Spry?  To be honest, I do prefer JQuery's animation tools, but for data handling I have grown accustomed to Spry since CS3.  But when it comes to iOS development I currently have a choice between XCode which is free for $99/year with an Apple Developer Membership or $4.99 without in the App Store vs $399 for a suite from Adobe.  Unfortunately the Mac tool on the Mac development wins out.
And the programs in the Design Suite that seemed to have been upgraded by 5.5 were:
Dreamweaver
InDesign
Flash Pro
Flash Catalyst
Device Central
What happened to all the beta HTML5 tools that were in Illustrator?  What about Fireworks?  And while the InDesign looks very interesting and tempting, it still scares me to read this:
Articles panel
Control the sequence of text, images, and graphics when you export to EPUB or HTML without changing your InDesign layout. Organize your content by dragging it into the new Articles panel to define the export order.
http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/features._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_features+by+versio n_sl_new+since+cs5.html
Haven't we learned anything from Word exporting HTML, then Photoshop exporting HTML and now we want to give InDesign a try.....Why????

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