Comments on: Dear Adobe, Here’s an idea for you http://www.webteacher.ws/2009/02/08/dear-adobe-heres-an-idea-for-you/ Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:36:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Scott Fegette http://www.webteacher.ws/2009/02/08/dear-adobe-heres-an-idea-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5460 Scott Fegette Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:04:17 +0000 http://www.webteacher.ws/?p=2107#comment-5460 Hi, Virginia- Thanks for the post. Michael has a great point- feature sets for DW are largely driven by demand, so often the fastest path to a specific implementation is when the third-party community jumps on it first (i.e. the extension suggestion). Right now we're keeping an eye on RDFa but there isn't much demand for it coming through the official channels yet - I'm certainly going to be watching how that progresses, however. Sorry I missed you at WDN! I wasn't able to arrive until the day after the workshops, unfortunately. -Scott, Adobe Systems Hi, Virginia-
Thanks for the post. Michael has a great point- feature sets for DW are largely driven by demand, so often the fastest path to a specific implementation is when the third-party community jumps on it first (i.e. the extension suggestion). Right now we’re keeping an eye on RDFa but there isn’t much demand for it coming through the official channels yet – I’m certainly going to be watching how that progresses, however.

Sorry I missed you at WDN! I wasn’t able to arrive until the day after the workshops, unfortunately.

-Scott, Adobe Systems

]]> By: vdebolt http://www.webteacher.ws/2009/02/08/dear-adobe-heres-an-idea-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5458 vdebolt Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:43:21 +0000 http://www.webteacher.ws/?p=2107#comment-5458 Mike, When I wrote that letter, I was actually thinking that it would be very nice if Project Seven or some other Dreamweaver extension maker created an extension for RDF. It could happen a lot faster than building it into the next Adobe Creative Suite version, too. Mike, When I wrote that letter, I was actually thinking that it would be very nice if Project Seven or some other Dreamweaver extension maker created an extension for RDF. It could happen a lot faster than building it into the next Adobe Creative Suite version, too.

]]> By: Michael(tm) Smith http://www.webteacher.ws/2009/02/08/dear-adobe-heres-an-idea-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5456 Michael(tm) Smith Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:44:19 +0000 http://www.webteacher.ws/?p=2107#comment-5456 Hi Virginia, I forwarded a link for posting to some friends. (Thanks for quoting me, by the way.) I'd suggest that one great way to demonstrate to Adobe the value of adding RDFa support to Dreamweaver would be for somebody to first write a third-party RDFs plugin for Dreamweaver, and to then track how many people actually download and install and use that -- and to get the word out by having Web-technologies teacher/trainers and book/article writers talk about the RDFs plugin in their work. I do realize that it could take a while to get the word out and to much data back on how much it is used. But pragmatically speaking, I think it might get into Dreamweaver natively much more quickly that way than it would if we just depend on waiting for Adobe to add it. On a somewhat related note, you might be interested in taking a look at the following: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2009Feb/0032.html It's a message from Larry Masinter of Adobe, about head@profile support in Dreamweaver. --Mike Hi Virginia,

I forwarded a link for posting to some friends. (Thanks for quoting me, by the way.)

I’d suggest that one great way to demonstrate to Adobe the value of adding RDFa support to Dreamweaver would be for somebody to first write a third-party RDFs plugin for Dreamweaver, and to then track how many people actually download and install and use that — and to get the word out by having Web-technologies teacher/trainers and book/article writers talk about the RDFs plugin in their work.

I do realize that it could take a while to get the word out and to much data back on how much it is used. But pragmatically speaking, I think it might get into Dreamweaver natively much more quickly that way than it would if we just depend on waiting for Adobe to add it.

On a somewhat related note, you might be interested in taking a look at the following:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2009Feb/0032.html

It’s a message from Larry Masinter of Adobe, about head@profile support in Dreamweaver.

–Mike

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