Creative Suite 3, AKA CS3 is nerly here. Adobe has announced a release part for March 27th, 2007. Dreamweaver CS3, Firefox CS3 and the Final Photoshop CS3 are all eagerly awwaited in web development shops around the world.

Update: Looks like the Dreamweaver 9 Beta will instead be Dreamweaver 9 Final, aka. Dreamweaver CS3. Adobe has announced a launch date for Dreamweaver CS3 on March 27th, 2007.

Those of us who use Dreamweaver 8 for web site development every day know its shortcomings well. What we don’t know is just what awaits us in Dreamweaver 9. Since Adobe released the Photoshop CS3 Beta (a very unusual step for Adobe), its natural to hope they might be cooking up other betas for release, especially if they push back the release of the CS3 Suite. Recently, a beta of Fireworks 9 surfaced, with lots of new features, but a similar palette interface to the current Fireworks 8. Lets hope Adobe takes the time to refine the interface in Dreamweaver 9 and Fireworks 9 as far as they have with the recent Photoshop CS3 beta.

Visit Adobe.com for all the latest.

I have found myself telling a lot of people about this simple technique that uses client side (browser) javascript to create clickable ‘mailto:’ links inside your web pages that are difficult to harvest using the typical automated bot technique used by spammers. If you have ever added your email address to a web site only to have it ‘tainted’ by spammers, who pick it up from the site and start sending you a huge volume of spam. The insidious spammers even send message with subjects taken from your site.

So – here is a simple technique that foiled the spammers:

We use a little javascript to write the link into the browser:
(remove the < br / > links added by WordPress)