The Trojan Horse of Web Design: The Genius Behind Adobe Fireworks' "Vector PNGs"

If you were designing websites in the late 1990s and early 2000s, your hard drive was likely a mess. The standard workflow of the era demanded a strict, frustrating division of labor: you had your heavy, complex "source" files—usually Adobe Photoshop ( .psd ) or Illustrator ( .ai ) documents containing all your editable layers and vectors—and you had your "delivery" files—the flattened, highly compressed .jpg or .gif images that you actually uploaded to the server. Managing this dual-file system