I miss seeing the “Macromedia Shockwave” loading screen when firing up online games on Win 98 back in the day 😢
Comment on Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma
Uglyhead@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good! Adobe has ruined all they touch since way back. Most notoriously with Macromedia Flash acquisition and enshittification.
lemann@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I miss the UI of the early 2000s era. It felt so slick back then.
Psaldorn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
RIP Fireworks. I used it for shitty design rather than websites or whatever but it was so easy to use.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I remember the guy Adobe put in charge of the Flash plugin on Linux whining in official public facing communication about how difficult it was to work with “minority browsers,” which he clarified to mean everything but Internet Explorer 6 running on Windows.
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is anyone really missing flash? as much as I hate Adobe like the next guy, the internet is a better place without that proprietary crap infesting most websites for no good reason other than a cheap animation
JonnyJ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t miss Flash, but it’s hard to deny that back in the day, it was nice to have a tool that rendered content universally for web browsers. It was also fun to make shit in. 100% obviously we’re better off without relying on some proprietary software to render interactive components etc, but it did serve a purpose and give us a blueprint for what the web should, and often times should NOT be.
But, Fireworks was a fucking fantastic program and was lightyears ahead of its time. Adobe murdering it spawned Sketch, which spawned Figma. So the irony and dread of Adobe buying Figma was never once lost on me.
I rely on these tools every workign day of my life, and fuck adobe for fucking with my workflow
jungle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Want Apple the main force behind killing Flash?
Uglyhead@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Adobe killed Flash by buying it up and making it complete shite. It was really decent before Adobe fudged it up. Macromedia had done a great job with it. That’s why it became so popular in the first place.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Flash was great for a lot of reasons, but had to die because of insecurities and performance issues. Apple crushed it for a good reason. It did take us a few years to catch back up.
But also, the market died. There’s nothing flash does that 2018 vanilla JavaScript can’t do. Yet nobody is really building tools like that anymore, and the hobby coders moved to other platforms like game makers or multimedia makers.
Uglyhead@lemmy.world 1 year ago
End of an era for sure. I agree, Adobe Flash had to go. Macromedia Flash was brilliant tho.