Predictions regarding Thermo

September 20th, 2007

So, as Ryan Stewart aptly put it: “WTF is Thermo?”. All we have so far is a job description (below) and a few cryptic posts from Adobe employees under NDAs.

“enable designers and creatively inclined developers to easily build rich internet applications and interactive content. “Thermo” will streamline the process of adding interactivity, behavior and motion to creative assets and will work seamlessly with both Adobe’s Creative Suite tools, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks and Flash, and with developer oriented tools such as Flex Builder.”

So, just to add fuel to the fire I’m posting the predictions of Juan and myself about what Thermo really is. So here goes:

• We know it’s for designers so made the following assumptions
• Full ide without a command line interface or sdk.
• wysiwyg interface, like the Flash ide, without access to the code (unlike Flex).
• timeline. Differs from flash though in that each ‘key’ is a state.
• Integrates into Photoshop/Fireworks etc so importing images comes down to a click (no css etc).
• An abstraction upon Flex, using Flex components.
• More effects and transitions between states - extending the basic Flex ones.
• A orange/brown icon (see below) - largely because they’ve run out other colors.

We’re probably barking up the wrong tree, I guess we’ll just have to wait till MAX.

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