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Things Adobe Killed (Macromedia acquisition; Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks)

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I always hated Dreamweaver, so no big loss.

Fireworks, on the other hand, had the best compression engine in the game, even Photoshop dulled the colors on every "compress for web" job i threw at it.

I started as a flash developer, don't miss it since jQuery and the Green Sock Animation Platform does everything flash could do, but better.

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- Funny story: around the mid-2000s, my boss at the time moved me off of web development because his teenage son was really good at Dreamweaver. I was in my 20s, losing my "Webmaster" job to a young whipper snapper.
  
  It was my first wakeup call that young people can always replace you.
  
  Btw - Not shitting on the kid either. He was pretty smart and honestly, I was a really crappy web developer in that era.
  
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- Dreamweaver, gaaaah. Hey, at least it was better than Frontpage, which took a much faster nosedive into enshittification after Microsoft bought it and ruined the absolute shit out of it. Slightly better. Like, it had its own shitty inline styling that would get tangled up in itself and you'd have to clean it up manually, but at least it wasn't Microsoft styling.
  
  Yeah, Fireworks compression was great! There was a period of time where I only used it to export jpeg, Photoshop's did suck in comparison.
  
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  Ugh, you just unlocked a core memory: Every element is assigned a class, but they are unique to the element, thus defeating the whole damn point of the class functionality?!
  
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  I didn’t know Frontpage was ever not a Microsoft product. It was on all our computers at school when I was in high school. When I first started making webpages with it it seemed cool, but as I learned more I was shocked at how bad it was. Still, it was just playing around in there that introduced me to how HTML worked, so I’ll give it a little credit for introducing me to the web.
  
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- I miss Fireworks. I have an old computer that still runs it and it’s still my favorite program to quickly throw something together in. I hate that they killed it and wish there was something like it still today. I haven’t found anything I like as much for that.
  
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- I always hated Dreamweaver
  
  Yeah, probably the weakest link on the Wayne's World soundtrack tbh..
  
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I miss macromedia.

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- I miss competition.
  
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  I purchased affinity recently. It is taking some getting used to. But it is better than a subscription to adob€
  
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  What are ya, some kind of commie?
  
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I miss CoolEdit Pro.

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Buying software outright.

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- Seriously this. My first thought was "perpetual licenses"
  
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Why kill it when you can make it open source instead

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Adobe ate Aldus, which had Photostyler, which was absorbed by Photoshop....

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What about freehand?

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Things Killed Adobe.

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