Re: FLASH: Gimme a break, J.D.

[Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa]

Tom Green wrote:


> It strikes me as being the height of arrogance or good old Yankee stupidity to

> trivialize the role of the very people upon which the success of Shockwave.com

> is based.


Bless you citizen. This is one of my contentions. It's a key one in

fact. From the very beginning some individuals beta testing SW702 said

there were problems, and apparently they were disregarded before the

beta went public.


Then when it went public even more problems were reported. They were

disregarded too. In fact I recall one macromedian saying, in essence,

"this is the way it's going to be; it's not going to change".


Then reports of documented problems began surfacing, most notably on

macFixIt.com, but also from people who are not exactly cretins with

their systems.


Entire legacy content was malfunctioning or interfered with as a result

of the remote. And its Mac UI is undeniably fundamentally flawed.


I have been on top of *all* of this from the moment awareness first

struck me what was happening.


I am not making any of this up. It is happening all around us, and IT

departments are now slamming down the locks on Shockwave 7.0.2 because

of it. Some are blanket-cursing *all* plugins because of this. Some

designers are therefore finding themselves robbed of *all* tools --

including Flash -- and jammed back into the Net box as it appeared in

about 1994 or so.


This does not represent a great stride forward for *any* of us. And I am

not inventing a single god damned word of it.


John's remark stung a *lot*. Perhaps he's forgotten that I volunteer my

time to try to make Director accessible to absolute newcomers, or that I

have vociferously defended it whenever it was necessary, or that a good

slice of my server space is dedicated to maintaining free support and

extension files for anyone who wants them. I am one of the people who

keeps newbies afloat, and who keeps them using the app instead of giving

up and going to PowerPoint. And I am not getting paid a fucking dime to

do it either.


It's discouraging in the extreme to see such a glib statement

essentially stating that I am an incompetent from a macromedia.com

address.


Especially when my objection to the remote has a lot more to it than

simply disliking its interface or the way it's simply forced on end

users. It *is* a known source of trouble, whether or not John or anyone

else at MACR want to publically acknowledge that fact. It's in the

process of being fixed, in fact -- why do that if it's not fulla

problems, eh?


Thanks, Tom.


--WthmO


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