Macromedia releases Studio 8

Studio 8 is here, announced Macromedia on Monday.

I’ve taken a look at the demos. A lot of the focus seems to have been on GUI improvements and extended support for technologies.

There haven’t been too many changes in Flash 8 - better video support, some more development for non-coders, improved GUIs and so on.

Dreamweaver 8 is gearing up for better CSS support, but it actually looked a bit confusing from the demo.

Fireworks 8 introduces more filters to bring it closer to Photoshop and some interesting CSS support for menus. Freehand remains unchanged (again).