Hey there - I’m new to the Freeway community and just getting my feet wet with Freeway Pro 5 (trial). So far, I’m pretty impressed with Freeway. I feel like I’ve made way more progress in my short time with it than I’ve ever made with Dreamweaver.
Anyone remember the company mFactory and their multi-media software mTropolis? It took the best of Director and Authorware and combined it into a designer’s tool. Freeway reminds me some of mTropolis. Great tool - design first, program/code later if needed. Too bad Quark bought them out and killed it.
Sometime around 29/1/09 (at 11:25 -0500) akaBT said:
So far, I’m pretty impressed with Freeway. I feel like I’ve made way
more progress in my short time with it than I’ve ever made with
Dreamweaver.
Heh. Welcome. I’m not surprised.
Anyone remember the company mFactory and their multi-media software
mTropolis? It took the best of Director and Authorware and combined
it into a designer’s tool.
Yep. Although it was also seriously buggy. And I mean SERIOUSLY
buggy. A major shame.
Too bad Quark bought them out and killed it.
Not exactly… remember QuarkImmedia? Surprisingly good multimedia
authoring abilities, but focused largely on CD-ROM delivery just as
the Internet started taking off.
That actually provided the foundation for today’s Quark Interactive
Designer, although not really in terms of actual code, more the
concepts. Interactive Designer is now a very good SWF interactive
design and development tool.
Software ancestry is sometimes rather strange. For example, there’s
the origins of Flash itself, and its long-lost cousin. But that’s a
story for another evening - right now it is time for bed!
Software ancestry is sometimes rather strange. For example, there’s
the origins of Flash itself, and its long-lost cousin. But that’s a
story for another evening - right now it is time for bed!
