Re: FLASH: OT: Adobe Sues Macromedia [OT]

[till]

> >sour grapes?

> >http://www.adobefacts.com/


...


>It's getting tough out there, protecting what sets you apart is becoming

>pretty key business. As a stockholder in both companies, I'm not really

>sure how I feel about it, but I am glad as a user that F5 doesn't suck to

>use nearly as much as F4.


I think it is ridiculous that someone can have a patent on "tabbed 

palettes". Where is the difference between MS Windows UI's tabbed dialogs 

and Adobes tabbed palettes except that they are smaller and you can drag 

and drop your own palette combinations ? So who started using tabbed 

dialogs anyway, i guess not Adobe... can the company that "invented" the 

"tabbed dialog" please sue Adobe for using tabs in it's palettes? This 

leads nowhere. You're right, Flash 4 UI is not really great but Livemotions 

UI totally sucks. I like the UI of After Effects which is basically the 

same as in Livemotion -  BUT  After Effects is for video compositing / 

animation, where you have to watch every effect parameter exactly because 

rendering a preview can take hours. This does not apply for Flash 

animations where you can check everything in (nearly) realtime. So there's 

no need for Flash (or Livemotion) to use After Effects UI concept of 

expandable parameter layers for each object layer.


Bye,

Till



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