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Re:Gone in a Flash: The Race to Save the Internet's Least Fa... by hiphopyo on Saturday April 11, 2015 @04:19PM (#9360628)
Fireworks is more a collection of stock graphics and widgets geared towards people who want to make quick mockups and such. As a design tool it doesn't even come close to Flash.
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Re:Gone in a Flash: The Race to Save the Internet's Least Fa... by sbuk on Saturday April 11, 2015 @04:42PM (#9360746)
No. Fireworks was a hybrid vector/bitmap editor specifically designed for web design. Flash is a vector based animation suite that originally included a javascript-based scripting language call actionscript.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Fireworks and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash

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Re:Gone in a Flash: The Race to Save the Internet's Least Fa... by krilnon on Saturday April 11, 2015 @05:02PM (#9360831)
You're right about Fireworks. Some people do like to use the Flash authoring environment for general web graphic work, even though that's not its primary intent. A friend of mine still uses it for all of his web tutorials and book diagrams. (Flash has tools for exporting single frames in a variety of image/vector formats.)
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