Adobe I like, but I couldn't care less about Macromedia's Flash.
I hope Flash dies, but I know it won't, because too many lazy webmasters use it to create great-looking but highly non-functional sites which suffer from lack of bookmarking and horrible user-interfaces.
To be totally fair, it's not Macromedia's fault, it's just that lazy webmasters have abused the power of Flash tremendously. I think Flash makes sense as presentation, but not as a layout or navigation system, because, as I've stated earlier, it's not bookmarkable and often it's hard to know where to click (not to mention, like the days of old MIDI files launched onLoad(), Flash sites often startle or annoy you with sound).
Now, Dreamweaver I have fond memories of -- at least way back in 1999, when it produced pretty good standards-compliant HTML. Then again, compared to the then-abysmal Microsoft Frontpage, that's not a difficult accomplishment.
Posted by stephend at April 19, 2005 01:54 AM