Cool new features is Coldfusion 8
In the last few months we upgrade from upgrade from Coldfusion 7 to 8. In the process of testing and usingColdfusion 8 we found some new features/tags that we really, really like.
CAPTCHA – The CFIMAGE tag can be used to create CAPTCHA images which help to reduce comment spam.
WYSIWYG Editor – Based on FCKEditor. This tag is extensible and we are thinking about adding some library specific functions to it to make things like database link creation easier.
AJAX – Coldfusion 8 has a bunch of AJAX widgets built into it. It used the Prototype library for this which we’ve been using for a while already. So having it built in is nice.
RSS and Atom Feed – The CFFEED tag allow you to generate and read RSS and Atom feeds easily with Coldfusion. While we’ve been doing this before by writing appropriate code, this tag will make the process much easier.
I’m sure will discover more useful aspects to Coldfusion 8 as time goes on. For now though we are making the most of incorporating the new capabilities we have discovered.