Macromedia relaunch

ByVanessa Tan

Macromedia has relaunched in Flash,taking on a light champagne hue. Its search engine is powered by Google.
You might notice how the Flash site actually remembers the item you selected on your dropdown menu, when you refresh or go back to the main page. Clever. That’s another step forward for Accessibility, which they’ve been taking rather seriously since its previous redesign.
From the Accessibility link you can toggle between Flash and HTML versions of the site, which is also pretty nifty.
As an aside, I’m proud to announce that I’ve managed to display this MT weblog in Flash (viewable in Flash Player version 6), although I think it’s not very practical. So HTML still rules for this site.

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