I always hated Dreamweaver, so no big loss.
Fireworks, on the other hand, had the best compression engine in the game, even Photoshop dulled the colors on every "compress for web" job i threw at it.
I started as a flash developer, don't miss it since jQuery and the Green Sock Animation Platform does everything flash could do, but better.
I always hated Dreamweaver
Yeah, probably the weakest link on the Wayne's World soundtrack tbh..
Funny story: around the mid-2000s, my boss at the time moved me off of web development because his teenage son was really good at Dreamweaver. I was in my 20s, losing my "Webmaster" job to a young whipper snapper.
It was my first wakeup call that young people can always replace you.
Btw - Not shitting on the kid either. He was pretty smart and honestly, I was a really crappy web developer in that era.
Dreamweaver, gaaaah. Hey, at least it was better than Frontpage, which took a much faster nosedive into enshittification after Microsoft bought it and ruined the absolute shit out of it. Slightly better. Like, it had its own shitty inline styling that would get tangled up in itself and you'd have to clean it up manually, but at least it wasn't Microsoft styling.
Yeah, Fireworks compression was great! There was a period of time where I only used it to export jpeg, Photoshop's did suck in comparison.
Buying software outright.
Why kill it when you can make it open source instead
Adobe ate Aldus, which had Photostyler, which was absorbed by Photoshop....
I miss CoolEdit Pro.
Things Killed Adobe.
