Re: FLASH: simple site check, if you please

[Michael Penne]

Thanks for the input;-).


--- Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa <

warrennightwares [dot] com

> wrote:

> Michael Penne wrote:

> 

> > Recently (almost) completed this site for my

> department, focus here on

> > easy nav., speed, and simplicity (many of our

> clients are first time

> > computer users).

> http://www.humboldt.edu/~ac/index2.html

> 

> Hmm, when I click on a submenu I get no immediate

> visual cue that a page

> is loading. So the tendency on a slower connect

> would be to click

> repeatedly, wondering why a page is not loading, why

> it appears that

> nothing is happening.


Well, we're on a T1, and since each .swf is ~30k-40k, not an immediate

problem, but a good point for off campus connects, I'll incorporate a

loader .swf as time permits.

> 

> The AC loader appears to be interfering with the

> browser's "back"

> button. Not good.

> 

> And in other places there seems to be no relation

> between the back

> button and what's loaded, particularly in the

> "Schedule" area.


Well, I used load movie level 0 to get around the Flash plug's penchent

for crashing netscape(Mac) on 'get url' when on the same subnet as the

server. This seems to be fixed in 4.12, however. The schedule links go

to external pages developed and maintained by others, so to fix that

I'd have to go back to each movie in its own html (or a database

solution), but I must admit I'm kinda enamoured of the speed boost in

simply loading movies rather than loading html that calls the .swf (a

speed boost more from processor than from bandwidth, many of our

machines our 33mhz-120mhz). 

> 

> Hmm, consider using frames to some extent. That

> should enable "back"

> more consistently.


Ugh. hate frames. 


 That or load it in a popup

> lacking those controls,

> forcing the user to employ your built in stuff.


I'd like too,  though we would likely get complaints that our browsers

'don't work right!'. I was thinking of a pop-up site map updated by the

clients navigation...

> 

> Just some basic UI suggestions.


Thanks!

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