Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different
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Re: Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different
#2I still haven't forgiven Madobe for killing Macromedia Director - a thousand hours of my work lost. It taught me a valuable lesson about the importance of Open Source - protect your investment from the caprice of a single corp.
Re: Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different
#3I had very similar feelings a few years ago. Flash defined what we now know as the web. Without it, it'd be completely different.
Re: Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different
#4I still haven't forgiven Madobe for killing Macromedia Director - a thousand hours of my work lost. It taught me a valuable lesson about the importance of Open Source - protect your investment from the caprice of a single corp.
Open source projects are guaranteed to be maintained forever?
Re: Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different
#5I still haven't forgiven Madobe for killing Macromedia Director - a thousand hours of my work lost. It taught me a valuable lesson about the importance of Open Source - protect your investment from the caprice of a single corp.
Open source projects are guaranteed to be maintained forever?
They're easier to fork.
Re: Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different
#6Not just flash, I'm a die-hard fireworks user and was still using it up until a few years ago, much better than PS for quick web stuff (99% of what I was doing). Was a sad day for consumers when Adobe bough them out, before they had to compete with improvements and new features for market share. I still use Adobe Fireworks regularly over Photoshop.
Re: Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different
#7I feel as though the author missed talking about Flex, which really took flash to the next level. It was short-lived, as it came a few years before the end of Flash-as-we-know-it when Steve Jobs decided to block it - but it was a great way to build sophisticated SPA's before the javascript ecosystem was able to catch up. Thanks Flash!
Re: Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different
#8Re: Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different
#9Not just flash, I'm a die-hard fireworks user and was still using it up until a few years ago, much better than PS for quick web stuff (99% of what I was doing). Was a sad day for consumers when Adobe bough them out, before they had to compete with improvements and new features for market share. I still use Adobe Fireworks regularly over Photoshop.
how does adobe fireworks compare to adobe illustrator?
Re: Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different
#10One thing I recently discovered that is very cool is Adobe's Alchemy (later called FlasCC and then CrossBridge) which is able to generate SWFs from C++. Not too much documentation can be found around it but it certainly intrigued me to realize you could bring your C++ applications to the browser (assuming Flash is installed/enabled)!