Re: FLASH: Mac *and* Win for flash development!

[John Dowdell]

At 2:43 PM 6/9/0, Joel Price wrote:

> Which OS system will I get the best performance in flash?


I'm glad that you're already familiar with both Macs and PCs... that's a

big part of the learning curve for most of us.


One of the keys is that the audience is on both types of computers. When

we're testing a design we have to see it on a variety of platforms, simply

because the audience. A designer who has only one type of computer is at a

real disadvantage here... they won't know if something looks different

until the client calls!


(People coming from the print or video world can be particularly snagged by

this, because they're used to delivering to a single known format, whether

a single printer or video format or what. In interactive screen-based

design we're sending along *instructions*, not just descriptions, and the

final renderer is fully under the control of the audience. Radically

different... major learning curve here!)


That said, the main brunt of your work could be done on whichever box you

prefer... doesn't much matter to the authoring tools. Just network it

across so you can test the rendering of other, slower boxes as you go

along.


Matter of fact, you can give a good home to various castoff computers,

modems, and old browsers... keep those clunkers! If the client wants

something that will play on an early Pentium or PowerMac with a 28.8 modem,

then there's nothing like being able to test it yourself, as you go

along...!


jd






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