Re: FLASH: Remote Rat Fight

[Tom Green]

Nigel Randsley-Pena wrote:

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>

> So main points that I think are important here. For Flash based content

> the fact that a user has the new 7.0.2 player or an older version 4 or 3

> player does not impact on the users experience while viewing the Flash

> content, nothing will change.


Of course nothing will change other than the fact that I have another thing

working in the backround and slowiing apps down. I use a a 7200/90 Mac in

my home office and since the dowload of 7.02 I can tell you Director 7.02

has suddenly become quite sluggish. Is this attributable to SW 7.02 and

Remote? I don't know but my Director was a lot speedier prior to the

installation and Pshop has suddenly been acting a might peevish. Let me

decide what runs in the background and don't make that decision for me.

AOL's Instant Messanger with Netscape quickly found a permanent home in my

trash can because I will make feature decisions, not the vendor.


>

> If we want to use the added functionality that 7.0.2 brings then plan

> for it.


Nigel, your argument falls apart here.You seem to assume that eveyone is

scrupulous in the planning process and this just isn't the case.


> Start by defining what you want to be remote controllable and /

> or saveable. Build your movie with that objective in mind so that if the

> movie need's to access external files all url's will be relative and not

> absolute.


We all know things change as deadlines approach and the average developer

is not going to be too terribly concerned with whether the .swf is

"contollable and/or saveable". When a client is breathing flames and smoke

down your back ,the thing has to be produced and that is that. The fact

content can be accessed offline, which has online calls, is probably going

to make Warren send an "I Told You So" post. Does launching a remote

Shockwave immediately launch a browser? If not this is a huge oversite on

the mothership's part and will result in lots of traffic talking about the

fact "I went to check out this site using remote and it really sucks

because none of the links were working and so on". This also may boomerang

back on the developers. "Hey, Smedley, I went to check out your work

through Shockwave Remote and none of the links work. You sure that guy who

did it for you is any good?"


As an aside, Warren kicked off a huge rat fight this week over on Direct-L

by asking, essentially, the same questions he asked here.The noise is

louder than the introduction of Dir 7.0 with all of its flaws and I find it

rather interesting how a lot of the people at the mothership have suddenly

"Love Bombed" the list. Warren sure got their attention and no one has been

able the clearly and definitively answer his questions.


The other point is, I don't particularly relish the propect of mulling over

whether I want to consider the "Controllable and/or saveable" objective in

my work. I would be most interested in seeing what criteria others apply in

making that decision and how they arrive at it with their clients.



>

> Add the new tags to your html and publish.


This is ,again, presumptuous. I don't mind adding the tags but it would

seem to me the logical place to ask the "Controllable/Saveable" questions

is in Flash's Publish menu. You can't assume everyone who flames up Flash

is sensitive to this issue or even knows about it. It wouldn't surprise me

in the least to see a patch or upgrade that addresses this come out of the

"mothership".



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