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How the demise of Adobe Fireworks will change our workflow

by bitteralmond on 6/6/13, 5:20 PM with 4 comments

• by callmevlad on 6/6/13, 7:22 PM

  It was sad to see both Fireworks (and Dreamweaver, in a previous life) get progressively less and less attention from Adobe over the years. I wonder what kind of web development tools we would have available today if Adobe never acquired Macromedia and let it keep innovating.

  The fact that such a complex workflow (creating static designs, outsourcing coding, manually integrating with a backend, etc) is still being asked of creatives in 2013 boggles my mind.

  With a bunch of web-focused tools just now starting to get off the ground - like Easel, Divshot, Jetstrap, Webflow (my company), Froont, Jetstrap, Macaw, etc etc - it's exciting to see Adobe get some real competition in the web space. The demise of Fireworks may actually be a blessing in disguise in the long term.

• by gte910h on 6/6/13, 7:23 PM

  Does someone have a good app that does "Change canvas size" a la Fireworks? I use this function of the app more than any other by an order of magnitude.