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by liamondrop 5120 days ago
One of Photoshop's virtues is, in my opinion, that it is NOT a browser and does not force one to think in terms of what browsers can do. Like all freedom, such a huge range of possibility does pose certain problems, but it also allows for very interesting, sometimes completely novel solutions.

I do both design and development and I find I use very different parts of my brain when doing one or the other. For me, it's important to stay far away from any kind of code until it's actually time to start implementing. Otherwise, I fall back to predictable habits.