Megan — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:55:07 +0000

Update - just came across this interview (gotta love RSS!) with the CEO of Adobe.

http://news.com.com/Adobe+under+construction/2008-1082_3-5843856.html?part=rss&tag=5843856&subj=news

Very interesting. Seems that they're more interested in PDF-Flash integration than anything else (although Illustrator-Flash would be very cool too). Interesitng comments about MS too.

Megan — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:29:40 +0000

I'm glad they've finally gone back to the version numbers instead of the letters (MX, CS etc.).

I'm having a few problems viewing the Flash presentation but I've been able to watch some of it. Looks like another case of releasing a new version without actually changing a whole lot. They couldn't exactly do MX 2004.2 though Blend modes are interseting. Dreamweaver seems to have more improvements with the CSS layout handling and XML stuff.

Greg K — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:13:09 +0000

Well, the next version is in "pre sales", (http://www.macromedia.com/software/studio/?promoid=BSOT). Wonder if this is still mainly a Macromedia product or if parts of adobe have migrated in....

I'm going to go view their tour of new products now...

-Greg

bja888 — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:41:28 +0000

I have been saying this should happen since I started with flash. All of macromedia's products work as if they where ment for childern. I think if you add the tech end of photoshop with the consept of flash the results will be... well practical! As opposed to how macromedia deals with flash now.
Flash uses every bit of your system resorces with no care of the consiquences. Its like it was programmed by a monkey not effective just.... well "flashy". (Pardon the punn)

dk01 — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:09:04 +0000

As long as they leave Photoshop untouched I will be happy I think.

-dk

Megan — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:29:28 +0000

Greg K wrote: Dreamweaver merging with Go Live??? Who knows.

Aaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh! I would be ticked off too. And Flash ?!?!?? Yikes.

(I do use Audition, which was formerly Cool Edit on a regular basis. seems that they just bought the software and basically left it alone. Which is okay, unless you want the software to actually improve!)

andy206uk — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:59:25 +0000

This scares me. Seriously. I'm worried as hell about this... if Adobe touch Fireworks or Dreamweaver I'm gonna be seriously ****** off!

teammatt3 — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:11:42 +0000

That's interesting. I wonder if Adobe will stop production of Fireworks?

dk01 — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:30:53 +0000

Honestly now what competition is there? Don't say Frontpage is a serious contender for web design software.

As always there are some interesting comments on slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/1355233&from=rss

-dk