You’ve been Assimilated

4th December 2005 | 0 Comments

Goodbye Macromedia, Hello Adobe. The acquisition has been completed over the weekend. Adobe's future strategy will be disclosed on January 31st. This is when we are going to hear what is going to happen to Macromedia’s and Adobe’s competing products (winners in bold):

  • GoLive vs Dreamweaver
  • ImageReady vs Fireworks
  • Illustrator vs Freehand

Dreamweaver has a commanding market share lead over GoLive as does Illustrator. No matter what happens, hopefully they will continue to develop great products.

JavaScript 2.0

4th December 2005 | 0 Comments

There has been increasing talk of JavaScript 2.0 lately. Mainly, it brings JavaScript to ActionScript 2.0/3.0 style of coding, but with a few minor differences. You can read more about JavaScript 2.0 at Brendan’s Roadmap Updates blog. It will be great to have the ability to use OO ActionScript code in JavaScript projects.

What’s New in Firefox 1.5

4th December 2005 | 0 Comments

Well it’s been out for week and it’s truly a nice upgrade. There are several nice features:

  • Automatic Update – You no longer need to download a whole new build when a patch is released.
  • Faster Back and Forward Navigation – Speaks for itself
  • Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs – Also speaks for itself
  • JavaScript 1.6 – Includes E4X as well as other improvements
  • SVG support

On a non-technical note, Firefox is now hosted on mozilla.com.