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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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dpcan ◴[11 Oct 25 23:07 UTC] No.45553512[source]▶
Adobe Fireworks - easiest vector / photo editor crossover app there ever was.
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1. MontyCarloHall ◴[11 Oct 25 23:25 UTC] No.45553649[source]▶
It's a real shame its raster functionality wasn't integrated into Illustrator. Adobe really butchered the whole Macromedia portfolio, didn't they?

(For those unfamiliar, Illustrator is a pure vector graphics editor; once you rasterize its shapes, they become uneditable fixed bitmaps. Fireworks was a vector graphics editor that rendered at a constant DPI, so it basically let you edit raster bitmaps like they were vectors. It was invaluable for pixel-perfect graphic design. Nothing since lets you do that, though with high-DPI screens and resolution-independent UIs being the norm these days, this functionality is less relevant than it used to be.)