Beta version of Microsoft Expression Web Designer is now available

17th May 2006

Microsoft corporation released the preliminary version of the HTML visual editor with the name Expression Web Designer (previously it was known as Quartz). The represented version of product bears status CTP (Community Technology Preview) and is accessible for the download on the Web site of corporation. Expression Web Designer editor is oriented to the professional users and over the long term, as it is expected, it will arrive to change FrontPage. With the aid of this product the Web- developers can create dynamic Internet- resources and interactive sites. Among the basic special features of editor corporation Microsoft spots the support of all basic Web- standards, including XHTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and XML, convenient interface and the rich collection of possibilities. Solution Expression Web Designer will become part of the complex packet of the graphic applications Microsoft Expression. Besides HTML- editor, this packet will also include the vector-raster graphic editor Expression Graphic Designer, previously known under the code name Acrylic, and program Expression Interactive Designer (code name Sparkle), intended for designing the user interface of the applications, created on the basis of the system of the idea of information Windows presentation Foundation (Avalon). By the way, to the developers there are already accessible the test versions Expression Graphic Designer and Expression Interactive Designer.