so why did they make this? flipping thru the help docs, seems to be for creating responsive ads (not a surprise I know) -- so they want to kill off flash but maintain the animations and flash ad style things out there for youtube and what not?
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#12You can color me skeptical until we see actual HTML5/CSS spit out by this - regardless of who writes it, I'm always doubtful of the efficacy of any automated/wizard-driven code generation in the general sense. I'll lump this in with Dreamweaver for now.
It looks like the site itself was generated with it. You can do a view/source to get an idea of what it might spit out.
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#13Interesting that this is being released as a native app, rather than a web app.
It uses Chromium Embedded and a fairly custom UI, so it looks like it's all HTML anyway. Maybe they packed it up as an app to get better FS permissions (amoungst other things).
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#14Makes sense to me.
Easier to make websites --> More websites --> More ads --> More money for Google.
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#15Cue the sensational headlines heralding web developers becoming obsolete. These tools keep getting better. Instead of rendering web developers obsolete, they just force everyone to be better.
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#16Might be useful to let marketing department guys crank out ad banners without bothering any devs. I'm still waiting for http://macaw.co/ for responsive site & application prototyping.
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#17Let's hope this isn't the new Dreamweaver!
Is Dreamweaver heavily used anymore? I don't honestly know, I haven't worked with anyone that used it in at least 7 years or so.
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#18Think this is mostly an alternative for Flash in display ads (which still primarily use Flash for animation). Guess is based on it being announced through Doubleclick's twitter stream. https://twitter.com/doubleclick_pub/status/38471531196005171...
It certainly looks that way. The name seems like a bit of an overreach though - "Designing the web" = creating animated ad banners?
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#19Think this is mostly an alternative for Flash in display ads (which still primarily use Flash for animation). Guess is based on it being announced through Doubleclick's twitter stream. https://twitter.com/doubleclick_pub/status/38471531196005171...
Correct. In the "Create New File" dialog, all of the default options are for Google ad units: http://cl.ly/image/2V0n2W1i041v
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#20If Google decides to couple this up with their cloud services, I wonder what does this announcement mean for Weebly?