Re: FLASH: OT?: CLEARING THE AIR: My Personal "Stand" Regarding Macromedia, AND, EQUALLY, Regarding Its Representatives Who Post Here.

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Michael@BTW wrote back:


>Only coment I have on this Ken, is that your liberal use of ** and the ""

>make your posts somewhat difficult to read.


I agree; you've probably noticed that I'm in the midst of "getting 

that", too. (It's probably part of why MM reps seem to have probs w/ 

my posts.)


Sorry for any "difficulty". I am weaning myself off of use of 

"punctuation symbols" as an attempt to make my posts "easier to 

read". ( ... sometimes leads to *more difficulty* rather than "less" 

... as you're saying, huh?!)


"Still learning"; thanks!


(There's also the "proper punctuation" "thing"; etc., etc.)


Sorry for any confusion in the midst of this process.


(You shoulda seen how it looked *before* I "edited" it! ;-) )


>In general folks here (I hope)

>are smart enough to read emphasis from the context rather than have it

>frequently pointed out to them.


No insult intended toward anyone's intelligence. I apologize. It's a 

"leftover", *in me*, from banging on my keyboard *AT* newsgroup 

participants/readers.


>Otherwise, I find your posts (esp the 'heads-ups') regarding the direction

>of Flash from a customer/developer's perspective quite informative & often

>helpful.


Thank you Michael!


>And I'm also pretty alarmed

      ^^^      ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^

[A "good first step" IMO (to be willing to state this, on this list). Thanks.


IMO (getting tired of stating that; ALL of EVERYTHING that I ever say 

is-and can-only-ever-be, "MO", huh?), for some reason, several people 

(too many?) on this list hesitate to "speak out". Sure, #1 goal of 

this list seems to be Passing Around Flash Knowledge. BUT, this topic 

(#1), in my mind, quickly extends to #2: Passing Around "Macromedia, 

etc." Knowledge.


YMMV.


>that reinstalling flash4 did not update

>the NS 4.6 flash 3 plug-in, nor did running the QuickTime updater install

>QT, I had to drag the plug-in manually from the QT folder. I'm still working

>on getting it to recognize flash4 content. Both are pretty alarming as far

>as the future of multimedia on the web, seeing NS even more tepid than M$ in

>supporting plug-ins...


SO my Q (rhetorical) is WHY CAN'T/WON'T:


AOL/Netscape ... Macromedia ... Metacreations ... Adobe ... Apple ... 

(not-to-mention MS?!) ...


... get the f together and work this stuff out?


WE ARE NOT PROGRAMMERS! WE ARE DEVELOPERS, ARTISTS, AND SO ON! WHY 

MUST WE BE BUGGED WITH THESE CONCERNS? SO FAR, AOL/NS, ADOBE, MM, 

METACREATIONS, APPLE, MICROSOFT, ETC., *just don't get it*.


(... was gonna edit out the CAPS, but, "why bother"?!)


See ya, Michael; thanks for responding, and, Good Luck!


Ken Sherwood


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