Allow me to just say that I really hate Macromedia Flash. Much of its use for animation is usually dubious (really, don’t need much distracting eye candy, thankyouverymuch), which is why I use the Flashblock extension in FF. <\/p>\n
But, more importantly, what gets presented in Flash is not easily copyable. Text in Flash is acutally a graphic, so it can’t be selected and Copy\/Pasted. And there’s no right-click context menu to save a graphic image that you see.<\/p>\n
Which, no doubt, is sometimes the point. But it’s a freaking annoying point, and it’s freaking annoying that uComics is beginning to use Flash for some of comics offerings, such as Foxtrot<\/a>. Not that it keeps folks who really want to from copying the comic (screen caps still work), but it makes it annoying<\/em> to do so,<\/p>\n And, on a completely unrelated note, does anyone have a recommendation for a simple, fast graphics editor — something that I could basically pull up\/paste a graphic image (e.g., a screen cap) and crop it, maybe save it as a few different types? The Microsoft Photo Editor worked great for that, as an example, but it got automagically deinstalled with Office 2003<\/a> (grump), and the MS Picture Manager is more of, well, a manager <\/em>than an editor (and an annoying one at that). I have Paint Shop Pro, which I love, but which also takes a good minute to load up. I want something lean and quick, not something that will let me create the great American graphic image.<\/p>\n UPDATE: Interesting. Someone has posted a stand-alone version of MPE here<\/a> (source here<\/a>). Put into a directory and execute to expand it. It’s an older version (1999), but it doesn’t seem to have trashed my machine … yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Allow me to just say that I really hate Macromedia Flash. 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