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How long has the Save for Web been "Legacy"? I feel like it's been there for a long time.
by reddalo 2y ago
How long has the Save for Web been "Legacy"? I feel like it's been there for a long time.
- jaredwy 2y agoI was the engineer that added that string. Since adding that string... I joined the photoshop team officially. Spent maybe 5 years there. I have left adobe. I Had a year and a half sabbatical. Now writing this comment. It's been a while.
- turnsout 2y agoHa, comments like this are why I love hn!
- MontagFTB 2y agoThe intent was to direct customers to the new “Export As” experience, which was a newer code base and handled some things SFW did not. Enough people couldn’t leave SFW behind though, and it’s been Legacy ever since. Anecdotally, SFW is the result of converting Adobe ImageReady into a plugin. When IR was originally created, many of its sources were split off from Photoshop to get it off the ground. So now we have two variants of “the same” sources for many files- one evolving in Photoshop, and the other frozen in time in Save for Web.