RE: FLASH: flash load movie issues!!56k modem BANNED!

[Jason Cartwright]

I completely agree - you should make every attempt to simulate your users

enviroment, be it OS, browser or connection speed. It is not possable to

emulate any of these to a satifactory degree - you have to go out and test.


Anyhow - what does a 56k modem cost? Less than �25 in the UK - probably less

in the US. This seems to be another case of an IT deptment playing God.


Jason

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-----Original Message-----

From: paul wehner [

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Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 2:19 PM

To:

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Subject: RE: FLASH: flash load movie issues!!56k modem BANNED!



If your IT people sincerely believe this then they are stupid.

They may not listen to web designers but they will be all ears when

your clients scream and withhold payment for a non-functioning website.

You need to document your forced inability to test your design using

the common bandwidth of internet user.


Paul Wehner

Network Systems Analyst

Mosler, Inc.

Tel. 870-1567

1139473skytel [dot] com

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 Behalf Of Brack,

Jeremy

Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 3:23 PM

To:

'flasherchinwag [dot] com

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Subject: RE: FLASH: flash load movie issues!!56k modem BANNED!



Hey Scott,

At my company, they are banning us from getting a 56k modem for site

testing, and this is making it nearly impossible to guess if any of our

sites will actually work in the outside world.  I was wondering if your

company allows you the use of a 56k modem for testing the load movie

commands.  We just started making heavy use of Load Movie commands here, and

of course every Flash movie works perfectly on our internal 100Mb LAN.  But

when I go home, and I take a glance at almost any of our latest websites..

all hell breaks lose..

If the loaded movie isnt timed correctly or doesnt have the scripts loaded

at the correct time, then massive sections of the website are not viewable.

After reading your e-mail and learning that different browsers load movies

differently.. I can see that the situation is much worse than I could ever

imagine..


I am curious if any Web Designers out there are also being banned from using

56k modems for testing websites?

If you are being banned from using 56k modems, did they give you a reason

why?


Our IT department thinks that a 56k modem is useless, and that if it runs

perfectly on our LAN, then it will work fine everywhere.  I only wish they

would listen to the web designers for once.


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