https://scribe.rip/the-web-platform-is-back-fa5752fabdfc is a pretty encouraging post from the Adobe dev team. Nice.
@sil oc Adobe wants to move everything to be on the Web. It's much easier to do Pay-monthly-or-lose-a-random-feature and there's no way to even think of a perpetual license. What's not to like?
@sil 80% of Photshop but running pay-per-hour in a web browser would be a compelling proposition
@falken which is why it’s a good idea in my opinion for a lead to be taken on demonstrating that there are no technological barriers to doing such a thing. Without that, what happens is we get more good design apps that only work on a Mac and so further entrench platform lockout. Chrome lockout is also bad, but making a web app work cross browser is easier than making a platform specific app work cross platform.
@falken well, not to like is their business model, as you note, but that’s wholly orthogonal to their implementation technology, and it’s hard to see how being cross platform is not an improvement in support. There seems to be quite a bit of “we want Adobe on Linux! Oh but not like that!” from at least one portion of that community that I’m in.