iWeb

iWeb is the latest addition to iLife 06 released by Apple a couple of days ago. iWeb let Mac users publishing a blog, photos, etc… easily by using some themes and templates. What I like in iWeb is the support of Ajax. Check the slideshow it’s really simple but works like a charm!

As a web developer, I am interested to see the HTML and CSS produced by iWeb. I know already a lot of ‘automatic’ web pages creation tools, but usually a look behind the curtains show signs of ugly badly formed pages.

Well some personal websites are already up and yes I confirm Apple has integrated the latest recommendations regarding CSS. No nested tables but all based on DIV and CSS floating elements. Really cool. Because I am a Mac user too, I will order iLife to create the templates I need regularly. Because time is precious this could prove useful. I dream of some tool like that for Visual Studio 2005.

 

2 Comments

  • Yes, it uses div & css, and this iWeb seems to be promising.



    But unfortunaly on the exemple that you showed, the code is dirty : too much useless div, lot of use of the "style" attribute ...

    I hope that this was just a bad exemple, and that iWeb can generate cleaner code.

  • Nicolas, yes it's not perfect, but compare that to Tables construction and it's ok.

    The slideshow is really neat, done fully in Javascript and Ajax!

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