Re: FLASH: Great Article about Flash, designers

[Laura Mollett]

>Some of you

>won't like it because it hits too close to home with its analysis of the

>designer mindset


Hits too close to home or is full of unproven stereotypes that add little or

nothing to what might be an interesting discussion but actually seems to be

a moot point anyway?


Let's imagine for a moment that there is a group of people who perform a

certain function (say, something like web designers), and let's say there is

a method that adds something to this function (like, say Java, for example)

that a small percentage of this group already know or find easy to learn.

However, let's say that for the majority of the group, the time it takes to

learn this method outweighs the usefulness of it (whether that is because

they don't understand coding or because they have a lot of other things to

do and what is added is small in comparison to what the language does is

left to the reader). Then let's say a company (like Macromedia maybe)

recognizes a need for a product that will serve this function (but actually

does less) and can speak to a larger number of people in the primary group

(whether it's easier for anyone to learn or just uses methods already

familiar to more of the primary group is again left up to the reader). Now

which tool do you think will be more widespread? And thus which will more

people be able to view?


Hey, me too.


btw, I made a's in calculus, despite or because of my art degree... take

your choice.


Laura Mollett


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