Gregory's Server@baldur @dave_rogers Adobe, purchased Macro Media, starved and then bordered FireWorks because it made Ps look like the bag of trash it is, and continue to make astoundingly slow software. Oh and PDFs are kryptonite for a11y and mobile, but Adobe insinuated PDF into governments and that war chest of $ allows them to wander around doing this stuff. RIP FireWorks
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@baldur Ah yes. That too, thank you! PS typo “…starved and then ~bordered~ +murdered+ FireWorks…”  @alan @baldur @dave_rogers Fireworks was a wonderful product in its niche but Photoshop is (overall) a vastly more capable product. I do miss Fireworks for small tasks but it wasn't killed to protect Photoshop, but rather because web authoring techniques changed and lower sales couldn't justify ongoing dev efforts. Source: I was lead engineer for the first four versions of Fireworks @alan @baldur @dave_rogers (I do have the occasional fantasy about Adobe open-sourcing the code to Fireworks, but then I realized I'd have to look at source code I wrote 25+ years ago and I'd certainly be cringing in hindsight) |
@alan Don't forget the decade-long security disaster that were its poorly maintained browser plugins. And the ElcomSoft/Sklyarov trial. And the buggy nightmare DRM on its software suite.