[thelist] Macromedia vs. Adobe

[Mike Migurski]

>>Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator are all de facto standards
>>for a reason: Macromedia got the web apps right first, and Adobe got the
>>design apps right first.
>
> From memory (and you're welcome to post the refuting dates - it's 1.22am
>here and I've been drinking), ImageReady was ahead of Fireworks - I was
>beta tester on both.

Oh, I meant that macromedia/adobe got them *right* first, not *released*
them first. There were tons of WYSIWYG tools for web design before
dreamweaver too, but DW was the first one that made any sense.

>I *still* like IR pre the PS bundling - it's a nice app which does exactly
>what it says on the tin. And for 70UKP or so, it was perfect.

Yeah, I like 1.0 a lot too, but I've foudn it difficult to get by without
the slice tools. I used to do all that by hand...

-mike.

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