Re: FLASH: bad design with Flash

[Anthony Byrne]

Here Here, get my vote on that one!!!


At 12:53 27/10/98 -0000, you wrote:

>I think that Rob is missing the point of interactivity,

>

>you could use a book or magazine as an analogy of a plain html site, you

>turn the page, you turn back...

>Great, we all love books... however there are times when we just want to sit

>back and be fed our information with limited input.... movies etc.

>

>As far as new users of the web are concerned, they don't want to be online

>reading material they could get from their library, they want to see a more

>televisual experience, the cartoon/film styles of web pages is great for

>them; they are more likely to spend those extra minutes viewing the whole

>site experience instead of 'surfing'.

>

>Could you imagine a world where instead of eye-catching movies, programs,

>adverts they were replaced with straight to the point info.

>A coke advert would not include the polar bears or the cubes of ice, it

>would just say COCA COLA, buy us we are a better brown fizzy drink.......

>Sites like advertisers use techniques to get people to notice and make

>themselves memorable. I don't need to be concerned with html-only pages, if

>I was then I would stick with LYNX (which does have it uses btw)

>and the web can be as boring as it was when it first started out, everyone

>with the *same* pages, but all trying to get my attention....

>

>It is great when a site comes along and someone says 'hey have you seen xxx'

>just the same as they do about films and adverts... we are moving towards an

>integration of film, design techniques and the Web, we don't want to step

>back a few years and all have the same pages.

>

>

>Loading can be efficient in Flash, and the streaming aspect of it is a

>bonus... I don't know how many times I have had a 300bits/s throughput on a

>site where the whole page is a table, and it won't show until it has all

>loaded... I tend to just give up and go elsewhere..

>

>And as far as macromedia 'should not allow this'-- why the hell not, they

>have provided us with a tool to allow us to provide great content, colours,

>sounds animation etc. at a low bandwidth... move forward I say!

>

>Mathew Bevan

>-----Original Message-----

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From: John Croteau <croteauerols [dot] com>

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To: <flashershocker [dot] com>

>Date: 27 October 1998 11:17

>Subject: Re: FLASH: bad design with Flash

>

>

>>Hi Robert,

>>

>>> : > I have a big wish for the Flash Player:

>>> : > It is very important for the user to have a full control about his

>>> : > browser and the plugins.

>>> : To expect that if you hit the stop button and the Flash animation will

>>> : stop and you will be able to see just HTML then the site must be an

>>> : HTML/Flash hybid site such as Marc Hoffman's

>>> : http://www.jps.net/dartfrog/sampler/.

>>> this is unfortunately not true. The Stop-Button work not right.

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