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minus-squarenocturnelinkfedilinkEnglish203•8 months agoAnd they bought Macromedia’s suite and destroyed it.
minus-square@lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish59•8 months agoI miss macromedia flash so bad, actionscript for life
minus-square@flightyhobler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish39•8 months agoI once built a website preloader that was so large that I made a pre-preloader for it. Good times indeed.
minus-squareEbbylinkfedilinkEnglish22•8 months agoA flash preloader was my first real tech job! As I recall, they stiffed my last paycheck and went under later. But it was incredibly fun and I made connections that steered my career to a new direction for the next decade.
minus-square@brbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoAwesome, what’s keeping you busy these days? (If this is an account where it’s OK to share that on)
minus-square@lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish4•8 months agoAgreed, the wildest of wests.
minus-squaremodifierlinkfedilinkEnglish7•8 months agoFireworks for me. I miss that whole suite though.
minus-squareandzlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-28 months agoNow there’s a name I haven’t seen in a while and that makes me a little bit sad.
minus-square@metaldream@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoGood I hated working in actionscript so much.
minus-square@Rogue@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish20•8 months agoFireworks had so much potential as a web design app and they threw it away. Illustrator and InDesign were too focused on print media and Photoshop could barely comprehend anything unless it was rasterized.
minus-square@Wimster@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglish10•8 months agoThat’s what big tech companies do, they buy small and promissing companies they think that once can become a competitor and then… destroy it. The young startups just take the money and can retire early.
minus-squareRob T FireflylinkfedilinkEnglish6•8 months agoAnd they bought Cool Edit and destroyed it.
minus-square@Xerxos@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish4•8 months agoAnd they bought Paintshop pro and destroyed it
minus-squareRob T FireflylinkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-28 months agoCorel bought Paint Shop Pro and destroyed it, not Adobe, though it was an Adobe-style move to be sure.
minus-square@Redredme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoI think he is old, like me and means aldus photostyler. Which was light years ahead of adobe in background separation.
And they bought Macromedia’s suite and destroyed it.
I miss macromedia flash so bad, actionscript for life
I once built a website preloader that was so large that I made a pre-preloader for it. Good times indeed.
A flash preloader was my first real tech job! As I recall, they stiffed my last paycheck and went under later.
But it was incredibly fun and I made connections that steered my career to a new direction for the next decade.
Awesome, what’s keeping you busy these days? (If this is an account where it’s OK to share that on)
Agreed, the wildest of wests.
Fireworks for me. I miss that whole suite though.
Now there’s a name I haven’t seen in a while and that makes me a little bit sad.
Good I hated working in actionscript so much.
RIP Fireworks…
Fireworks had so much potential as a web design app and they threw it away.
Illustrator and InDesign were too focused on print media and Photoshop could barely comprehend anything unless it was rasterized.
That’s what big tech companies do, they buy small and promissing companies they think that once can become a competitor and then… destroy it. The young startups just take the money and can retire early.
And they bought Cool Edit and destroyed it.
And they bought Paintshop pro and destroyed it
Corel bought Paint Shop Pro and destroyed it, not Adobe, though it was an Adobe-style move to be sure.
I think he is old, like me and means aldus photostyler. Which was light years ahead of adobe in background separation.