Adobe follow Xara.

[Squeaky]

Looks like Adobe are following Xaras lead:
http://muse.adobe.com/index.html

It looks maybe a little more advanced in some respects than Xtreme pro or web but a whole bunch of surprisingly similar concepts. One of the good side effects is that I hope people might take Xara and this way of web designing more seriously now!

[Squeaky]

Just poked around the adobe forums. Adobe intent to have this program as subscription only and if you stop subscribing you can't update your sites. Outrageous!
I dropped a hint about Xara though ;-)

[handrawn]

Hi Squeaky

see also here:

http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...ht=cloud+adobe

[Squeaky]

Cheers Steve. I missed that. It's all very interesting.

[gwpriester]

It really makes sense for Adobe to do this. And they have the staff and the money to see it through.

It will be a very serious challenge for Xara and it could result in a better Xara product if Xara accepts the challenge and rises to the occasion.

[xtom]

Adobe intent to have this program as subscription only and if you stop subscribing you can't update your sites. Outrageous!

I don't like that!

The good thing is people like alternatives (especially vs expensive adobe products), a huge amount of existing adobe users might now start to consider the easier/quicker method of wysiwyg as a more viable alterntaive vs the longer/harder process of designing/slicing/coding etc. and with a bit of luck it might actually bring more attention and customers to other wysiwg programs like Xara.