Maelstorm

Thud…

That was the sound I made when I died of anticipation after looking at the first video of Maelstorm from the Tokyo flascon a few moths ago.

To me the arrival of 8Ball and Maelstorm (I’ve always wondered why two code-names for software that could not exist without each other)

finally ends the wait for the most anticipated feature I’ve been longing for since – well FutureSplash really: High quality anti-aliased

text. Of course, layer modes, pixel control, vector2bitmap caching, alpha-video support are very welcome as well, but nothing compared to

the relieve that I’ll get when designing the next "< 14px" site – and my text will not look like as if you have -5 vision on both eyes.