Congrats to Dion and Ben on their move to Mozilla. I’ve been lucky enough to get to know Dion more over the past year in my role at Adobe and he’s one of the best out there. He and Ben make a pretty awesome tag team.

So what are they working on? Developer tools, something that is close to Adobe’s heart and important for the web. But what I’m most excited about is how this will help evolve Adobe and Mozilla’s relationship. I think Mozilla is a fascinating organization and that in a lot of ways, because we’re both so close to the web, Adobe and Mozilla have a lot in common. Our methods and incentives are different, but I think for the most part our goals are the same. We both want to evolve the web as a platform and improve the lives of web developers. Adobe uses Flash as the engine to do that (along with Ajax in Adobe AIR) but I think more cooperation between Mozilla and Adobe could go a long way towards helping both Flash and Ajax.

Good times for web developers are ahead me thinks.