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作者的blog: http://www.awflasher.com/blog/
此文寫于購《交互設(shè)計(jì)之路-讓高科技產(chǎn)品回歸人性》、《Ajax in Action》兩書之后。
我實(shí)在是不愿冠以這樣一個(gè)標(biāo)題，但危機(jī)已經(jīng)來臨。之前(2005-04-28-時(shí)隔一年)我曾經(jīng)翻譯過國外某blog上的文章和評(píng)論：
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/04/18/Adobe-Macromedia
Seems straightforward to me. Adobe is in at the center of print production (PhotoShop & friends, InDesign, PDF), while Macromedia’s DreamWeaver is the single most important Web-design product. Dave Shea says this might be about Flash, but let me suggest exactly the opposite: if you’re hitching your career to Flash, it might be a good time to look at alternatives. Why’s that? Because, near as I can tell, Macromedia has never made any serious money with Flash. They’ve accomplished one of the great, heroic, marketing coups of all time, getting the plug-in onto substantially every desktop on the planet; and this bought them, uh, what exactly? They sell authoring tools, but seriously, how many Flash designers does the world need?
Anyhow, most of the good things you can do with Flash, you can do about as well with DHTML (oops that’s called AJAX now) and our “back” button still works. I guess there’s no reason to actually shut Flash down, the tool revenue must about cover the engineering costs. But Adobe, historically, has been good at focusing on what works and dropping the distractions. (Can you remember PageMill?) Flash is a distraction. [Update: Smell something burning? That would be me, sizzling in a torrent of Flash-flavored flame.]
對(duì)我而言，這是一件很明確的事實(shí)：Adobe公司位于印刷產(chǎn)品業(yè)界的核心部地位（Photoshop和PDF），與此同時(shí)，Macromedia（下作MM）的DW也是唯一的一款經(jīng)典的網(wǎng)頁建設(shè)工具（awflasher.com注：個(gè)人認(rèn)為甚至可以說是利器）。DaveShea說道，F(xiàn)lash也許和它們（PS,PDF from Adobe,DW from MM）一樣，但是讓我很鄭重的告訴你一個(gè)相反的事實(shí)：如果你把你未來的職業(yè)定位于Flash相關(guān)，那么最好還是給自己留一手…………為什么這么說呢？因?yàn)�，�?jù)我所知，MM從來沒有在Flash方面投入什么財(cái)力，它們只是得到了意外的收獲！（aw注：這里想到MM官方的一個(gè)介紹中對(duì)當(dāng)那場(chǎng)大收購的大力渲染，如果這句話是真，那還難免有點(diǎn)傷情），此外，大多數(shù)人都說Adobe不會(huì)傻到把Flash槍斃的地步，可是看了Luar的blog，有這么一句話“Adobe有大量購併對(duì)手，消滅對(duì)手產(chǎn)品的惡劣歷史；”，難免讓我有點(diǎn)心寒。M把播放器安裝到地球上的每一個(gè)角落，然后把制作的工具賣出去，然而，世界上到底需要多少Flash設(shè)計(jì)人員？總之，大多數(shù)你能用Flash完成的任務(wù)，你都可以用DHTML（現(xiàn)在叫做AJAX）完成，而且你的“后退”按鈕仍然有效（aw注：Flash其實(shí)也可以對(duì)后臺(tái)按鈕進(jìn)行操作，只是大多數(shù)Flasher不會(huì)而以，不要把這個(gè)bug加到flash的頭上）。我認(rèn)為沒有理由把Flash關(guān)閉掉，因?yàn)檫@個(gè)工具帶來的收益可用于填補(bǔ)工程支出。
然而Adobe，一向是專注于某一方面而把剩下“令他們分心的事物”丟棄（aw附：這里不是很明白，MM難道把Flash用于填補(bǔ)它們其他web工程的自己缺口，這樣一種可憐的定位？？？）。你還記得PageMill么（aw附：貌似是很糟的一款A(yù)dobe的軟件）。而Flash就是一種“令他們分心的事物”。（作者注：是不是有點(diǎn)火了？我感受到你的憤怒了）
Reasoned Debate Some people took the time to compose and post coherent arguments as to why I might be wrong. For example, Pete Freitag writes “I think Macromedia makes most of its money from Flash, so I don't think that they will be cutting it anytime soon” and if he’s right, then I’m wrong. John Dowdell of Macromedia offers an example of something that he says is beyond DHTML’s reach and says “Funny, you'd sorta think Sun would be bullish on a cross-platform, cross-browser ‘write once play anywhere’" kind of thingy, wouldn't you...? ;-)”. ?
有一些人拿出相當(dāng)?shù)淖C據(jù)來告訴我，我的言論是錯(cuò)誤的。比如，PeteFreitag就提到“我認(rèn)為MM的大部分收入是來自Flash的，所以我認(rèn)為他們不會(huì)把Flash停掉”，如果他是正確的，那么我當(dāng)然錯(cuò)了。MM公司的JohnDowdell提供了他認(rèn)為超越了DHTML所能達(dá)到能力的一個(gè)例子，并提道“有意思，你似乎是把Sun過高地定位為一個(gè)跨平臺(tái)的，跨瀏覽器的‘寫一次（代碼），到處可以執(zhí)行’，實(shí)際一點(diǎn)吧！”
Get Yer Flames Here! Hoo boy, those Flash faithful are, what’s the word I’m looking for, um, articulate. Here’s a sampling: ?
發(fā)火了吧？呵呵，這些Flash的信徒們，這些語言就是我正在尋找的，在這里有一些例子：
[原文后面評(píng)論：aw注：十分搞笑+可愛]
“I assume his comments are an ill-tempered and unprofessional anomaly.” -Brian Lesser.
“我敢肯定他心里有問題，變態(tài)……”-Brian Lesser.
“Sun could only dream of a day when Adobe guts Flash so that we might return to those great days of clunky Java applets that never actually fulfilled their purpose within the development community.” -Justin Everett-Church.
“Sun只能夢(mèng)想著有一天Adobe把Flash毀掉，然后它們的JavaApplets就能東山再起了”-Justin Everett-Church.
“Johnny Script kiddie not knowing about stuff like that I can understand, but the director of web technologies at Sun should at least have some sort clue.” -Stephen Milligan.
“Today’s ‘Whistling Past the Graveyard’ Award goes to Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies at Sun, whose apparent focus on Java renders him incapable of understanding the value proposition of Flash. No wonder Java continues to stagnate!” -Ray Everett-Church.
“今天的墓地哨音獎(jiǎng)（aw注：猜測(cè)是某一種貶義的“獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)”）應(yīng)該歸TimBray所有了，就是這個(gè)Sun的Web技術(shù)部的主管，明顯他對(duì)Flash的忽略是Java目前步入窘境的原因！”-Ray Everett-Church.
“Mr. Bray must not be spending any time with the users *I* see. Those under the age of 45.” -Kim Cavanaugh. [Ouch!]
“Bray先生肯定沒有花多少時(shí)間在用戶上。那些45歲以下的”-Kim Cavanaugh. [Ouch!]
（aw注：這個(gè)“Ouch”不知道是不是作者加的）
“In my opinion Timothy Bray is a Pillock of the First Water.” -Gerry Marshall.
“在我看來作者不過是‘ a Pillock of the First Water’” -GerryMarshall
（aw注：不知道這個(gè)什么意思）
“I think it's all rubbish of course.” -Daniel Freeman.
“我認(rèn)為都是垃圾” -DanielFreeman
（aw注：原來老外也用“垃圾”罵人，哈哈）
“I think it deserves to be marked with the ‘Don't post after a large bottle of wine’ metatag.” -Cort Winters.
“我認(rèn)為應(yīng)該在這篇文章上標(biāo)注‘酒后勿發(fā)文’”-CortWinters
（aw注：這個(gè)很有幽默感，呵呵）
“What is Bray smoking???” -Phill Nacelli.
“作者在抽什么煙”-PhillNacelli
“Bray is full of FUD and nothing else. He does work for SUN (no bias,ha,ha...;) who have ‘crappy’ applets on their side. He’s just jealous, since Flex, CFMX, Dreameaver, Flash, Breeze and other will make Adobe superior to M$ and Sun in the market and quality.” -Patrick Whittingham.
“作者肯定是個(gè)笨蛋，僅此而已。他肯定為SUN工作，為那些沒有價(jià)值的Applets說話。他只是嫉妒而以，自從Flex、DW、Flash|Breeze等這些能夠令A(yù)dobe公司在市場(chǎng)和品質(zhì)上與Sun和微軟抗衡的產(chǎn)品出現(xiàn)后的一種嫉妒。”
-Patrick Whittingham。
“Must've got his beard caught in his sandles again.” -clark.
“腦袋進(jìn)水了”-clark
（aw注：大指應(yīng)該是這個(gè)意思吧，原文是一句俚語）
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