Forget about Liquid Motion

[Matthew Wilson]

Info is at http://www.microsoft.com/liquidmotion/


On a g3 Mac under Netscape Navigator 4.05, Liquid Motion's paltry demos ran

slower than most bitmap-animation DHTML pages I've seen!  The motion was

jerky--like a quicktime movie on an really old computer.  I was not

impressed.


Apparently, they run best on . . . you guessed it, IE 4.0 for Windows.

When I tried it on a PC, it did indeed run much faster.  But the demos were

so bad (can you say "powerpoint98"?) that I quickly lost interest.  I did

download the beta and on first perusal it seemed clunky.  After a few

minutes of working with the interface, I leapt back into the arms of Flash!


Flash is a much stronger product which I believe will win out, despite the

microsoft muscle behind liquidmotion.


This is, I believe, one of the few Microsoft products I have seen recently

that is trying to compete in the arena of creative development (if you

don't count the square, vanilla, and boring PowerPoint).  And as a creative

professional, I have to say that Macromedia is light years ahead of

eggheadish microsoft when it comes to creative "street credibility".



>--))):> <:((((--<

matthew wilson

creative director


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