CSS Region by Adobe

CSS Region by Adobe Proposal for Web Magazine layout 

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Adobe releases a prototype Web Kit for web developers to try and design magazine type layout with complex format. The CSS Regions.

CSS Regions (Adobe)

Download a WebKit-based prototype of CSS Regions, the proposed additions from Adobe to the W3C CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) modules to build complex, magazine-like layouts using web standards. Capturing in digital form the complex layouts of a typical magazine, newspaper, or textbook requires capabilities beyond those possible with the existing CSS modules. CSS Regions is a proposal that describes how content creators can use some additional basic building blocks to express complex layouts with CSS.
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ColdFusion 9 beta by Adobe

Adobe Systems has unveiled there public beta versions of ColdFusion 9, which is the latest version of the company's Web development platform that leverages server-side services, and the accompanying ColdFusion Builder IDE, for rapid development of ColdFusion applications.

Version 9 features enhancements in productivity, integration, and rich Interface development.

With this updated ColdFusion 9, users will expect a lot of additional features such as the following:

*a new way to build database applications without having to write SQL code," instead using Hibernate technology for building object-based applications. Applications become database-independent

*With version 9, Adobe is making it easier to build applications that can be deployed in Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) for running applications offline and putting data back in ColdFusion when coming back online.

* Flex and Flash integration is highlighted as well

* Integration with Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration platform and the abilty to work natively with Microsoft Office documents built in applications like Excel or PowerPoint. Data can be read from Excel files, for example.

*Integration with SharePoint allows ColdFusion applications to talk to the SharePoint document library, with SharePoint able to manage documents. Developers can build business applications in ColdFusion that reside on top of SharePoint.

*ColdFusion Builder is an Eclipse-based product. Serving as a full IDE for building ColdFusion applications, ColdFusion Builder also provides tools to work with databases and supports HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for building Web pages.

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