Adobe seems to be moving in a direction with most of their apps where they’re following neither Mac nor Windows conventions, but rather making up their own Adobe UI conventions, which conventions few of their users seem to like.
— John Gruber on the new user interface in Fireworks CS4 beta. While the single-window interface is an improvement, they’ve made a right mess of the chrome and typography. Would have been a much better idea to adopt the “pro” style of Apple’s high-end apps, but perhaps the APIs Adobe is using don’t provide hooks for that particular look and feel. Also annoying: ⌘-backquote doesn’t cycle through the app’s open document windows.
