We don’t want another new UI, XHTML and CSS export, a JavaScript pop-up menu generator or a new type engine. We just want a product that is 100% focused on allowing us to put down on the canvas what we are imagining in our heads and then slice up and export that for use in a hand-coded layout. That’s it.
— Nathan Pitman’s open letter to developers encourages them to create a light-weight competitor to Adobe’s Fireworks, the latest version of which has major bugs that remain unpatched five months after its release. I’m a Fireworks devotee since version 1.0; its approach is streets ahead of Photoshop for me, but the latest version feels like messy beta software at best, with most of the effort having gone into features I won’t use. (via Jon Hicks)
