Re: FLASH: Chinese characters

[Ken Lanxner]

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On 7/23/00 at 1:12 PM, Max Johnson <

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> If you have time, please check it out, you can even download the 'fla'

> if you wanna dissect it. I would appreciate any suggestions on how I

> could have made it better/faster/easier to use... yada, yada... Since

> I subscribed to this list to learn, you're free to criticize

> everything  - except my headshots :-)


> http://www.lottaonline.com/flasher/mj_movie.html

>

> http://www.lottaonline.com/flasher/mj_movie.fla


I liked it a lot -- the use of colors, the simplicity of the site, the

graphics, the animation. Your use of the Chinese characters is

especially noteworthy in that you have blurred the line between

pre-loader and movie. It is *so* much better to see that rather than an

innacurate progress bar. :-)


Also, you resisted the impulse to overdo it. There is very little of

that superfluous Flash added by many just because they know how to do

it.


I can't help with download times because I have high-speed access. I

certainly didn't notice any pauses in the movie, for example.


Peripheral items were less successful in my testing. The QT movie is

*very* dark in a lot of spots. (I viewed it on a Mac set to 800 x 600,

gazillions of colors.) And there is a problem with the title which only

displays the text "of the Spider Woman." What's a spider woman without a

kiss? Even on my fast connection, it downloads slowly enough to halt the

movie about 1/3 through while it catches up.


Finally, I could not view your resum�. I am fully equipped for PDF

viewing and downloading, but got the following message: "There was an

error processing a page. Failed to locate an application resource

(internal error)." Followed by another message: "Could not find the

ColorSpace named CS8." I don't know what all that means but it gave me a

blank PDF page.


Other than that, great job, especially considering it's your first

project.


Ken


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