I would like to express clear and reasoned support for @developer57 ’s message, as it accurately reflects a reality experienced for many years by a large community of Fireworks users.   This message is part of a long series of discussions posted on this forum over the years, all pointing to the same observations and the same practical difficulties that have followed the discontinuation of Fireworks.   This is not about nostalgia for an outdated tool, nor about refusing to adopt modern solutions. It is a much more concrete observation: Fireworks supported unique, fast, and lightweight workflows that have never truly been replaced.   Photopea is often mentioned as an alternative. It is indeed an important piece of today’s ecosystem, especially as a bridge for opening, reviewing, or converting certain file formats (layered PNGs, PSDs). However, Photopea does not replace Fireworks as a tool. It does not reproduce its ergonomics, its hybrid pixel and vector logic, nor the very rich ecosystem of extensions that was central to daily professional use.   Several older but still very relevant articles clearly explain why Photoshop was never designed for fast, iterative web design workflows, I have in mind one of them 50 reasons NOT to use Photoshop for Web Design. This analysis is often echoed, along with comparisons to Illustrator. While Illustrator can indeed cover some vector related use cases, it does not allow direct and fluid work on bitmap elements, which are essential to the workflows described here. It was precisely this ability to combine, without friction, pixel and vector elements within the same document and the same gesture that made Fireworks unique, and which, to this day, has not found a true equivalent. More recently, an overview Fireworks chaud devant! was published on the Puce & Média blog, revisiting what Fireworks was, what it enabled, and the gap left by its abandonment. The workflows described by @developer57 are very telling: screenshots, immediate editing, pasting into emails, quick visual drafts created in seconds, saving layered PNGs, and live exchanges with clients. No current Adobe tool offers the same level of simplicity, speed, and flexibility for these use cases.   Today, the most problematic issue is no longer the lack of ongoing development, but the fact that Fireworks has gradually become unusable due to changes in licensing systems, even for users who originally purchased a perpetual license. The deactivation of license verification now prevents any use at all, even at one’s own risk.   Many of us are not asking for renewed support, updates, or Creative Cloud integration. The request is more modest and reasonable : to consider allowing the use of previously purchased installable licenses again, so that users may continue to work with Fireworks knowingly and at their own responsibility.   Failing that, it would be useful to open a clear dialogue with product or marketing managers to seriously discuss what made Fireworks so specific, and what is still missing today in the Adobe ecosystem.   At this stage, and given the recurring nature of these discussions, a relay to teams able to properly assess the real implications of this situation would likely be helpful, when possible.   This community is neither marginal nor backward looking. It is made up of professionals who significantly contributed to making Adobe what it is today, at a time when other choices already existed.   I sincerely hope this thread can move beyond exchanges between frustrated users and finally open a space for discussion with decision makers who can truly understand the scope of what has been lost.   Thank you to @developer57 for articulating these points so clearly.   ... View more

hello @paul_2273 ,   That’s both normal and not normal at the same time 😉 Your regex is perfectly fine, but if in Dreamweaver the Match case option isn’t checked, the search runs in case-insensitive mode ( i ). So even [A-Z] will match lowercase letters too. So, just make sure to mark Match case, and everything will work exactly as expected! ... View more

Like you, I often use DW as an application manager, which means I have quite a few files open, and sometimes files that don't belong to the same project. I don't usually encounter any problems, and DW always knows where to place the file I'm working on using the correct FTP account. This is very convenient and works well.   However, sometimes, for no apparent reason, it starts to go haywire. When you select a tab, or even a related document, DW does not display the appropriate code content. This does not happen systematically on the same type or family of documents.   Unfortunately, the only solution I've found is to restart DW. Sometimes I also have to restart the OS... but then again, I have a really ancient machine... I think the office bought it more than 13 or 14 years ago... so although I can work with it properly, there are compromises, and DW is one of them. ..    you're not alone to face it, just remember to keep "documents reopen when launching DW" and don't have any unsaved documents, unless you also have a third-party code editor open 🙂 ... View more

Sorry for beeing late on this one, as I am particularly sensitive to the issue of web accessibility, I wish to support @Nancy OShea's recommendations regarding the importance of complying with WCAG. The initiative to integrate these standards into our sites seams essential to ensure an inclusive experience.   On our end, we've recently published an blog's article on setting up a work and testing environment focused on accessibility. This article addresses various aspects we've encountered and might be of interest to you: Create a Test Environment to Evaluate Web Accessibility (The article is in French, but you should have access to a translator menu in the top left-hand corner).    Additionally, on LinkedIn thre is a series of articles discussing the responsive aspect of websites, emphasizing accessibility from the design phase. If you're interested, here's the link : Why Responsive Websites Are Not Just a Simple Step for Website.   With @L e n a , we're preparing a practical guide on the basic rules to take into account when setting up a site, or an application, to improve accessibility.  We're thinking of building on an earlier article that was still in draft form and hadn't been finalized "What is meant by accessibility? "   We recognize that one of the major challenges lies in adapting existing codebases. If you've faced obstacles or successes in this area, please feel free to share them. As @Nancy OShea  mentioned, it's often a matter of common sense and collaboration. ... View more

Hello @divyasin , thanks for your feedback and sorry for the delay, I've had quite a bit of delay in email management.   During this time I was able to investigate and I was contacted by the beta service (automatic reply with registration link), unfortunately, the SDK seams apparently only JAVA oriented...   On the other hand, digging into the link you provide, it looks like a REST API might be what I'm looking for... good to investigate as export to XML doesn't seem to be supported, or documented   Can you, please, confirm that the beta program can cover this type of external use integrated with third-party applications (PHP or Node.js and Export to XML), or is it JAVA-only regarding API deployment? If so, is it possible to speak to the development team before finalizing registration?   Thanks again for your attention and have a pleasant day birnou ... View more

Before diving into a more in-depth study, I wanted to reach out to all of you to see if you have any feedback or thoughts on the topic.   As for the extraction API, I still haven’t heard back from Adobe, so I continued my search and here’s what I’ve found: Zamzar offers 100 free tests and then a minimal subscription starting at 25 euros per month. However, it doesn't seem to support XML, only XLSX: https://developers.zamzar.com/docs PDF.co seems to be more flexible with the number of tests and covers a wide range of languages like Node, PHP, and Python: https://developer.pdf.co/api/pdf-to-xml/index.html DocParser has a limited trial period (14 days), so it’s best to be available and not have too many big tasks running in parallel when starting your first test. After that, it’s $32 per month. I couldn’t find much documentation on their REST API, and when PDF is mentioned, it seems more about PDF Forms, which might need further investigation: https://docparser.com/ iText PDF seems to be only focused on Java and .NET: https://itextpdf.com/resources/api-documentation. I would personally prefer something for Node or PHP. PDFBox: Same situation, it's Java-only: https://pdfbox.apache.org/ Convert API looks very comprehensive, but doesn’t seem to handle PDF to XML conversion: https://www.convertapi.com/api/tag/pdf. I also couldn’t find any trial information, and the subscription starts at $30 per month.   If you have any insights or suggestions on any of these, or know of other options, I’d love to hear them! Does anyone have any information, or perhaps an URL I might have missed, regarding Adobe’s REST API for extraction? ... View more

It's here too,     with Bridge version 14.1.2.300 & Windows 10 Professional Edition Version 22H2 Installed on 11/12/2021 Operating system build 19045.4780 Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19060.1000.0   ... View more

Regarding SVG, it all depends on what you need. Have you tried to used Aaron's extensions, https://fireworks.abeall.com/extensions/commands/Export/, or John's https://www.johndunning.com/fireworks/about/SVG.html... they're sufficient in many cases and still allow us to intervene in the code if necessary. Regarding WebP and AVIF, I need to finalize an article on this subject. Some time ago, I created a Node-based tool that converts Fw productions into WebP and/or AVIF files. The main thing holding me back from writing the paper is that the conversion parameters are still hardcoded. I haven't yet taken the time to set up a proper control interface. ... View more

SO, If anyone has advice about doing this quicker, as I asked, it would be much appreicated. Everyone else who has opinions that arent useful, post them in reddit. By @adampicz   could you please, tell what exactly you would like to fix ?... I have loaded your page, but unfortunally I di'nt find out any place to clik...  I didn't check the code yet either...   ... View more

I agree with you... it's been a long time since I visited the w3schools site... I had a distant memory of it, so I've just rediscovered the page from which @Sicarii Origin drew his (her ?) inspiration https://www.w3schools.com/Js/js_classes.asp ...    it's true that there's no unorganized framing of the concepts themselves, which could at least have room for instantiation, encapsulation, inheritance with a word on the notion of prototype which often leads to confusion, polymorphism... in short... nothing...   just a series of keywords on the left (which are not linked to each other... and are not helfull for newbies)... no trace of private, public or protected definitions...   so I can only advise @Sicarii Origin , if (s)he reads this message, to go (no pun intended) to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/Objects/Object-oriented_programming  and also to this tutorial example, which isn't bad once one've mastered the basic syntax, https://javascript.info/private-protected-properties-methods  (the entire tutorial is pretty good too).   the next step, in my opinion, would be to read books by Axel Raushmayer, Addy Osmani, Douglas Crocford, Nicholas Zakas... well... in short, the list is long of what I'd like to recommend... ... View more

I don't think the question is about the developer's level of advancement, at least in the sense of expertise, but in the sense of his level of learning. Learning object-oriented programming is a journey that at first remains vague and complex, although once acquired sometimes still remains vague... hence the need for popularization sites that are really superficial  and why not the use W3 schools for that purpose ;). ... View more

The bigger question is I don't know why you are using the very verbose 'class constructor' method when you could just use a simple function( see below code example). By @osgood_   it all depends on how @Sicarii Origin wants to inherit a secondary class, or benefit from the instantiation phase ? ... View more

you say... DUCK... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK8yQ-zpn_k ... View more

well @osgood_ talking about Shelves, and @Nancy OShea who points out that he's not dead yet... this reminds me of two passages from a film anthology, and I couldn't resist sharing them with you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdf5EXo6I68   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmFnX8So27U ... View more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBca3xf-j3o  lol first one has better sound qualities, but second one is better for memory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGwPSPIhohk ... View more

@--rick_D , I'm probably a simpleton and didn't understand your initial question, nor its context. well, I don't have a Mac handy, apart from MVs, but under W10, I empty all the sites from the file panel (which is therefore empty, like new out of the box), I create a file on a Synology server at the root of a buried folder... an empty file containing absolutely nothing, I name it haphazardly index (2).php ... (using spaces and parentheses)... I right-click (equivalent to ctrl-click on Mac) and choose to open with DW... and hop... magical, DW launches and the file opens... files that weren't closed the last time DW was quit, also reopen... so in my opinion, and if my introductory sentence is wrong... it's a bug on the Mac, either in the system or in the application (La palisse) ... View more

Well, it's true that the original idea of CSS signatures was to allow each user to customize browser styles, affecting only the site in question, but it's also true that they allow us to add subtleties to pages independently of each other. ... View more

it's easier, once most of the work has been done, to see the addition of a comma 😉 ... View more

although this may require more rewriting, wouldn't it be better to place these rules in the file reserved for JavaScript (site management, advanced options, JSLint) https://eslint.org/docs/latest/use/configure/#specifying-parser-options, and not in the one dedicated to HTML https://htmlhint.com/docs/user-guide/getting-started.  ... View more

whatever the size of the choir, the point is to do and feel it 😉 ... View more