Readies a new specification to compete with Silverlight, possibly spark format war in online graphic-intensive application development.  

SAN FRANCISCO—Adobe's “Thermo” will heat up the rich Internet application battles, with the aim to better enable designers and developers to work together.

At the Web 2.0 Expo here April 23, Steven Heintz, senior product manager for the new product under development at Adobe, demonstrated some of the product's capabilities for the first time to an audience outside Adobe's core user base. Adobe last showed Thermo at its annual Max event in October, Heintz said.

Thermo is an upcoming Adobe product that makes it easy for designers to create rich Internet application user interfaces. Thermo will allow designers to build on familiar workflows to visually create working applications that easily flow into production and development, Adobe officials said.

In an interview with eWEEK, Heintz said Thermo will see its first public beta release later this year, with a general release next year. He said Thermo will likely have a long beta process, similar to Adobe's roll-out of its Adobe Lightroom photography software, which went through a comprehensive beta process to gain maximum feedback from potential users of the technology.

 

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