The working draft - the first of three - covers a protocol for forms used on web sites that allow surfers to write in their details and buy on line. Current forms are html based and date back to 1993.
Version five of the graphics and animation program provides developers with XML support and ActionScript - a JavaScript-like language for creating interactivity - which, according to the company, can dramatically reduce development time.
Others include: Flash combined with Macromedia's Flex server software; Sun Microsystems' J2SE; a platform under open-source development by Laszlo Systems; and the collection of established web standards recently dubbed 'Ajax'.
Smith said Interactive Designer depended on Microsoft's WinFX programming model being introduced with Vista, itself due to ship in late 2006. The application - called Expression Graphic Designer - was first released in test form in June last year...
More web developers are using a programming technique known as Ajax, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML. The end result of using Ajax is interactive web pages and sites that can automatically refresh information from a server.
Google admitted that the system is comparable to long-established projects such as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), which is often used in Ajax web programming. Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a...