Re: FLASH: Are the developers of the Flash 4 aliens? :)

[Fraser Stephens]

Catherine,


>The interface and the logic of Flash is stupid and tangled in my view.


Well put - A couple of weeks ago I wrote a similar question to the 

lists. I too am new to Flash but and old hand (over 7 years 

professionally) at multimedia. I am similarly amazed at just how bad 

Flash is, and I had an almost response on the list to my question 

(mostly "get used to it/ it is not that bad/ why should the interface 

be the same?").


I can only imagine that you are absolutely correct - the developers 

must be aliens, and one who have never heard of Apple's Human 

Interface Guidelines.


Flash does have one sole good point - almost all the bugs and gripes 

(and there are pages of them) that I have sworn at over the last 3 

weeks are totally Win/Mac cross-platform - I even have a simple flash 

document that spontaneously decided to refuse to open and crash both 

the Mac and Windows version of Flash 4. Macromedia tech support have 

yet to get back to me on this one, but for the moment I don't trust 

Flash at all. I would not expect such appalling software from a $35 

shareware title.


Fraser


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