Flash: Working on a CS4 document in CS5, press save and it’ll just tell you to use save as unless you want to save a CS5 document.
Why is this application such an asshole.
Just how bad is Flash on Android?
It’s like a bad joke, the Android browsing experience is already pretty clunky looking when you sit it next to the iPhone and the huge black rectangles jumping around the page a 5 frames too late as it struggles to redraw really doesn’t help. Looks completely hacked in and half arsed, this is supposed to be Adobes flagship mobile product and this is the best they can deliver?
Apologist geeks in the comments are trying to justify that the videos should have been re-encoded but doesn’t that completely defeat the argument that Flash should have been on the iPhone? By that logic you are suggesting that video makers re-encode all their video, Adobe programs Flash for iPhone and Apple allows it on their phones just to save you reprogramming a video player… because that’s the only part of this chain which hasn’t had to be completely changed just to get that video to the device via Flash.
I’ll remember this video next time Shantanu Narayen spews forth more bullshit like the following
I think we’ve proven that the technology is not only suitable but it actually significantly enhances the value on these mobile devices.
Flash: 3 folder icon styles, one application. one of these tree controls is written in Flash, each uses a different highlight colour, one animates folders collapsing for no good reason..
I’ve started to dread having to do any work in Flash at all, it’s just so fucking horrible to use. Adobe doesn’t give a shit about the graphic designers who have to use Flash.
Install trial, fuck up computer.
Good few people installing Adobe trials and then having issues with the Akamai system they use apparently slowing their net access and spamming the console log with messages.
Great job Adobe and Akamai!
What sort of utter moron considers this as a suitable uninstall command
admintool uninstall -force
Firstly “admintool” sounds ominous and secondly “-force” just says “Do it anyway even if it could fuck everything up”
If that wasn’t enough how many designers know how to use the fucking Terminal? I do but I’d definitely consider myself a minority.
Adobe Forums: Whoever developed this decided they knew better than your browser vendor and replaced the textbox context menu with a custom one… yeah adobe selecting fucking alignment is more important than the spell checking that comes with my OS as standard.
WHO PUTS ALIGNMENT IN A CONTEXT MENU ANYWAY? It’s almost like they designed the custom context menu then had to think up a handful of features to actually use it for.
Photoshop: Why do vector masks still show their outlines while adjusting the feather, you can barely see what it’s doing till you deselect.
Again those badly faked controls are a fucking joke, so pathetic when it’s the application Adobe likes to push for UI design too.
Fireworks/Illustrator: Comparison of window corners with Cocoa standard on the left, then Fireworks and finally Illustrator.
Irritatingly Fireworks doesn’t include the Apple resize control… instead you have to aim for an invisible border that is about 5 pixels big, the resize cursor will show for a radius of about 10 pixels but only the first 5 will actually work clicking beyond that will just click through. This utterly moronic resize change is one of the reasons I started this blog, I’m confident I can resize a window faster using the clearly defined cocoa resize control rather than having an ambiguous 8 corner resizing. In fact I bet I can even move and resize my window faster and with less miss clicks than someone can using the left hand invisible resize border.
I mean seriously Adobe… you really think Apple has been sat there developing UIs for this many years and not even considered adding 8 corner resizing? Seem to think you know better than them about how their own OS should work.
As a wonderful bonus this custom resize behaviour also breaks the OS X background interaction feature, normally on OS X if you hold command and click/drag on titlebars/controls in the background you can interact with them without losing focus unless it’s an Adobe app where they rolled their own widgets and didn’t replicate this feature. They probably don’t even know about it because their attention to detail has been so shoddy lately I mean there is even a redraw error on the bottom of that Fireworks window for fuck sake.
Thanks Rainer
A Real Web Designer Application - Jason Santa Maria
Great discussion about the idea of a web design application from yet more people finally seeing that a photo editor perhaps isn’t the best choices to design web pages in. I’d argue a decent number of the points are already taken care of in Fireworks but I’d definitely agree the CS3/CS4 stability, Adobes disinterest and general feel of clunkiness puts most people off ever finding those capabilities.
Changing a menu style in a Photoshop comp is the most annoying thing for me
Comments like this make me cringe to imagine people actually work like that.
Noticed quite a shocking number of people using InDesign for web work, also mentions of Keynote and plenty saying they just work directly in code. The fact this is all so fractured and tools designed for completely different jobs being used for web design really sends home how desperate the design community is for a decent solution to the modern interactive design problem.
Personally I think the talk about actually generating code is a bad idea, didn’t work with Dreamweaver why bother trying again. However I believe the future would be in a Fireworks like tool using WebKit as the main display engine so browser text/div styles can be directly specified like you currently specify layer styles in PS/FW.
No real HTML code should be generated from this application, although developers should be able to copy the CSS attributes or paragraph/list tags directly if they want.
Antetype
Saw this nice interface prototyping/design app in the comments too, http://www.antetype.com/ have to say it looks like the sort of thing Adobe should have been working on about 2 years ago… only they would probably write the whole thing in Flex and make me want to throw up.
Illustrator: Repeatedly click swap stroke and fill, then this will happen.
Thanks Cadin
Photoshop: Yeah they never did fix this faked window problem.
Thanks Craig
