Version 5.1 Launched

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WD wasn't combined into Xtreme 5, WD was extracted from Xtreme 5 and released earlier when the relevant work was completed. This is clear from the fact that WD/V5 web features are a substantial update to what was already in V4. V5 is a serious upgrade from WD/V4 html features because unlike WD, you can use all of Xara's drawing features. I gave my site a visual revamp to illustrate this.

Content aware scaling has been the source of a lot of talk since Adobe bought out the inventors of the original technology and stuffed it into Photoshop. Xara's implementation is the world's fastest and very slick. Xara's version does lack the ability to force areas to be removed before others however.

Spell checking and multi-stage transparency have been two long asked for features on TG. HTML was given priority because producing websites is more important for most than producing web graphics alone nowadays apparently. So what was done does seem to make sense, even though at first glance it appears somewhat disappointing.

So your saying that there was Xtreme5 in development, strapped to an operating table and ready to be winched through a trap door in the laboratory ceiling at the first sign of a thunderstorm when along came someone and extracted, Adams rib like, the bare bones of what was then rapidly moulded into WebDesigner?
Call me cynical and accuse me of surfacing from the wrong side of the bed this morning if you like but isn’t that a bit of a rip off, essentially selling the same thing twice, all be it improved, in a matter of a few months?
I've still bought this and I am very pleased with the new desktop icon, though I still think its only an upgrade of Xtreme and WDesigner, not a new version. Also there is the point that WebDesigner was a strong enough product in its own right to exist on its own and be susequently upgraded and expanded as a seperate application.
Derek