Re: FLASH: Flash - barrier to entry?

[Daniel Votino]

Happy New Year to all.


I am new to this list.  Have been reading all your great questions and

answers.  Now I have one myself.  I have a strange anomoly perhaps someone

here has encountered and might be able to explain?


On a fresh install the other day of Windows 98 I went to a Flash 3 site I

designed . . . www.thesurefoundation.org and got a blank blue screen.

I was attempting to view it through IE 4.  It is viewable on all other

computers in my office with both Netscape and IE.  It has always seemed to

load correctly when being the first internet visit of new computers for this

project.


So I then went to www.olympic.org to see if it just wasn't calling for the

Active X file correctly.  Th olympic site worked but I noticed it did not

use an Active X.  It must have been Java since there was still no Active X

program downloaded to my windows directory for Shock.


I then tried Macromedia's site and it gave me the standard html site and not

the flashed site as it does normally if you dont have shock installed.


So I tried www.beatstream.com where it proceeded to download the Active X

file for me.  I then went back to the site I designed and it worked.  So I

then took the downloaded Active X file out of my windows directory and

again, went to the site I had worked on.  It then proceeded to download the

Active X file again and worked fine.


Any takers?

Thank you,


Daniel






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Date: Saturday, January 02, 1999 1:40 PM

Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash - barrier to entry?



>Just a little info, Windows 98 comes with the flash/shockwave plugins and

>Netscape 4.5 comes with the flash plugin also.

>

>Matt Irwin wrote:

>

>> >

>> >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

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> black_scarabhotmail [dot] com

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