Beta get a bucket

Looks like the Dreamweaver and Fireworks teams are taking a more open approach to validating the work they've done so far with the updates for the CS4 release and have put out to the world beta offerings of Dreamweaver CS4 and Fireworks CS4. I also see that there are some videos on Adobe TV, take a look at the Dreamweaver CS4 feature videos. I've not looked much at the Fireworks offering just yet, but the Dreamweaver feature descriptions look intriguing and what was shown in the videos offers a great look into what has been cooking up in the labs of Adobe.

I'm not overly impressed with the new look of the application, but I knew that they would be going that way given what was done with I think Photoshop and Flash among others in the CS3 releases. I hope that I grow used to the all gray all the time look.

I think that of the features called out in the "New Features" list I'll be most interested in the JavaScript code hinting as I've often turned to JSEclipse an Eclipse plug in for editing JavaScript files when I'm working with some library code with lots of objects that I don't know intimately, or that have a good bit of nested object namespacing such as YUI or Spry . I'll also be playing around with Live View, Related files, and HTML data sets, which I assume Spry uses as it has HTML data sets.

So grab a bucket and go check out the betas!