Greg Rewis (San Francisco, USA)
Greg Rewis is the Worldwide Senior Evangelist for Web Tools for Adobe Systems Incorporated with nearly 20 years of computer industry experience. In this role, Rewis spends up to 200 days of the year on the road talking with customers, giving product demonstrations at trade shows and seminars, speaking at industry conferences, and leading specialized advanced training sessions featuring Adobe’s Web Tools product line.Accessible AJAX: Progressive Enhancements with Spry 1.6
A primary buzzword within the greater "Web 2.0" buzz has been AJAX - the use of JavaScript to manipulate page content without the necessity of a page reload. But while it sounds cool, the realities of implementing AJAX has been a huge, developer-centric undertaking with numerous pitfalls. That is, until now. With the release of version 1.6 of the Spry Framework for AJAX, designers and developers alike can take easily implement AJAX widgets, such as Accordion panes, Multi-tab interfaces and Sliding panels, as well as advanced data manipulation and form validation, without sacrificing backward compatibility for non-JavaScript enabled user agents. During this session we'll walk through the steps of a real-world project, as we implement a number of AJAX widgets, effects and data manipulations. More...
Speaker Details
Before Adobe, Rewis was Macromedia's Senior Web Tools Evangelist for its web publishing suite of software and web application development servers. He also represented the company's millions of customers in an advocate's role on the Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks product development teams.
Rewis began his web career as the original Product Manager and Evangelist for GoLive Systems and its CyberStudio product, later acquired by Adobe.
Rewis has spoken at numerous industry events including Macromedia's MAX conferences, Internet World, Web Design World, and numerous regional conferences. He was also in two MacWorld keynotes.
