Adobe LiveMotion 2

Well, that's the theory. I'm less convinced. The new power comes at the cost of complexity, as the most commonly used actions are no longer available as simple-to-add Behaviours. I'm also unconvinced that advanced users will actually use LiveMotion to create the Web applications that Adobe claims, as LiveMotion's programming environment is less friendly and less powerful than Flash's.

Many users were expecting LiveMotion to introduce SVG support. After all, Adobe claims SVG is the Web graphics technology of the future. But targetting Macromedia's Flash SWF technology means that Adobe has spent the majority of its LiveMotion effort in a largely vain attempt to compete with Flash in the high-end field of Web application development rather than concentrate on the program's real strength: producing the creative graphical elements for high-impact Web and multimedia design.

Author: Tom Arah