Ask the Geeks: Round one
Yesterday I begged and pleaded for some questions for our first Ask the Geeks. Thanks to those that provided the following questions.
“Riddle me this, Ubergeeks: Will PowerPC web browser plugins work in a Universal browser on an Intel Mac?” — Chris Coleman
Yes. Fortunately almost anything compiled for PowerPC processors will run on the Intel platform under the power of Rosetta. The only problem is many of such will not run very efficiently. You asked specifically about using the PDF Plugin within Camino - and I gave it a shot and it appears to run fine.
Update, an aside: You’ll need to “run the plugin in Rosetta”. To do this, run Get Info on Camino, and check the box stating “Open using Rosetta”. This will run Camino in Rosetta and make the plugin work.
Though I have yet to figure out why you use Camino.
“In your opinion, what are the main reasons someone might want to use Photoshop for web-design, as opposed to say, Fireworks? I ask this because it seems 99% of designers use Photoshop, but why?” — James Coats
Since your asking for my “opinion”, I’ll provide it. Those that do web-design, or any type of design (or even programming for that matter) want to follow industry standards. Those of us that would like to have work, be able to eat and pay bills, like to follow industry standards for multiple reasons. The first of which is job opportunities. Adobe Photoshop is most definitely an industry standard for design - as is Illustrator. Designers that use Photoshop, compared to those that can not and focus exclusively on Fireworks, will find that they have more jobs available to them. The second reason would be that of compatibility. If your clients, bosses, and colleagues use Photoshop, and you want to create files that they can open, you need to use Photoshop - plain and simple.
Of course, the above are my opinion.
So, what about next week’s Ask the Geeks? Anyone have any more questions?
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That is quite an important update to the first answer you provide about browser plugins. Many plugins for various applications that are compiled for PowerPC will require you to specifically open the appliation in Rosetta for the plugin to work.
Zach Hale on August 25th, 2006 3:54 pm
More thoughts on the Photoshop vs. Fireworks question.
Mike Stickel on August 25th, 2006 5:51 pm