Why I despise Adobe, part 627.
I think the most boneheaded aspect of it is the assumption that Unicode will make a mess on the web, but instead of changing it to something in nice, safe 7-bit ASCII, it's instead an 8-bit character that not only is not semantically related, but is wholly reliant on the local codepage, so it could become all kinda of nonsense depending on what system the webserver is serving to, so it's still not "web-safe". Nice job fucking it up, guys.
Why I despise Adobe, part 627.
@Thaminga Exactly that. We're still paying so dearly for the platform wars....
Why I despise Adobe, part 627.
@ElectricKeet Yeeeaaaah. Honestly, the only reason their products became the industry standard at all is because Photoshop was the big one to make it through the narrowing of OS choices to Mac & Windows-related systems in the early '90s, and it just kinda stuck from there due to the need for an overarching standard in fields like graphic design.