Dear Adobe,
I love my iPad and my iPhone. I'm tired of hearing everyone complain about how they don't support Flash.
I know that it's in your financial interests to whine as loudly as you can about the missing Flash on Apple's mobile devices, but it's making me like you less and less.
In fact, today when you announced your new CS5 suite of products, I started pricing out upgrades for the individual components that I actually use instead of just blindly going for one of the bundles you've listed.
Interestingly, your website doesn't support Safari on my Mac very well. If you're doing it on purpose to strike a blow at Apple, then good job. Except now I'm wondering if I can get by without any of your products.
It's 2010. Having a website that doesn't scroll with the scroll wheel on my mouse is so 1992. If you would use open standards in your own websites instead of the proprietary Flash, then maybe, just maybe, your website would work like the other websites out there.
Your website is all corporate and pretty but it's not functional.
It's making sense to me that you are fighting against HTML 5 when things like the scroll wheel that don't rely on HTML at all don't work on your Flash-based site.
Note that I've just about talked myself out of all of your products except for Photoshop. I could probably get by without it as well, there are several good programs that do what I do 99% of the time, but I like using Photoshop and I'm excited about it being 64bit (finally) on the Mac. One of Photoshop's superpowers is that it creates media that is not a proprietary standard. It makes things called JPEG and GIF and PNG that I can use in hundreds of other programs.
Please apply some of your knowledge and expertise to (1) making your site more accessible and (2) to making tools that develop websites for the current decade instead of the one 15 years ago. I'd love to see an HTML 5 development app from you, especially one that includes support for the CANVAS object.
That's something I'd buy.
Thanks
