Re: FLASH: Flash - barrier to entry?

[Matt Irwin]

>

>Hi everyone,

>

>I just joined the list today and I have what I hope is a simple 

question.

>

>I'm reasonably new to Flash and have had the opportunity to bid on a 

couple

>of jobs.  The most recent of which I was turned down because they said 

that

>Flash had too much of a "barrier to entry".

>

>Basically I was supposed to create an animated menu system for a site.  

The

>barrier, according to the client, was the plug-in issue.

>

>Can anyone point me to any good articles that could bolster my position 

when

>this issue comes up again?  I did some research and found some numbers 

on

>the amount of 3.0 and 4.0+ browsers out there, but I think it would be 

good

>if I had more information about ease of installation, file size 

advantages,

>Flash as an open standard, etc. etc.

>

>Thanks!

>

>Paul

>



Hey,


  I can't provide you with any articles I can think of, but as I'm sure 

you know Flash is very well distributed.  My solution, as others have 

posted, would be to use a Flash detection script and some form of 

alternate image w/ an image map.  Aftershock will generate this code, 

which is ok, but it never seems to make the image right (at least in my 

version) so I export images straight from flash.  While Aftershock does  

work, I would recommend writing or getting a better script yourself 

because the code I've gotten from aftershock has done some weird stuff.  

I also wanted to point out you can write script that will install the 

plug-in when people come to the site, I know this works with IE, 

although I'm not sure about Netscape, and Aftershock will do this as 

well.  I hope this is some fuel for your fire, or future fires.


Matt Irwin

matttechnomarketing [dot] com

black_scarabhotmail [dot] com

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