Tim Buntel's preview of Blackstone (the next version of ColdFusion) this morning was very impressive, but then Tim is always good value.
We saw how BlackStone can generate beautiful looking Flash forms with a minimum number of tags.
The forms could be easily set to do validation of data, displaying a nice looking error message - much more pleasant than a JavaScript pop-up.
We also saw nice layout options used for multi-part forms, things like accordian panes and tabs.
The other thing that I saw that was very cool was a tag that, when surrounding content, output a page as pdf.
Ben Elmore also gave a Flex preview that got everyone excited.
I managed to grab a few photos of the keynote, check them out here:
http://daemon.typepad.com/photos/keynote_2/
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Sounds like pretty soon anything is going to be a better tool for building RIAs than the Flash IDE itself.
Funny, because the flagship tool today is Flash MX 2004 Pro and you can almost hear the sound of MM dropping it already for RIA work.
Posted by: aral on February 25, 2004 08:51 PM
Looks like some great new presentation layer tools. Did they discuss anything new on the inside? Like public/private data members in CFCs? etc.?
Posted by: David Ringley on February 26, 2004 04:10 AM