As the starter of this thread I am happy to read the various inputs given.

To not have standard wide supported file formats is a very big problem, and we could only hope that in the future there will be A STANDARD vector format.

But ok I can understand why the closed Fireworks PNG format will not be supported. So I can only hope that they will change this standard format in the future, because it is a real pain that almost all webdesign i come a cross is only editable in Fireworks.

But if I had to choose a feature from fireworks that was to get implemented in xara, I would prefere Fireworks way of working with layers.

I will just hope for a common open standard vector format in the future.

Nice to read all the input though