Re: FLASH: major question

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 01:57 PM 11/04/1999 , you wrote:

>To everyone:

>

>I've got a pretty good hang on flash 3.  My company would like to start

>doing stuff in 4, but all our clients are scared that users won't have the

>plugin.  I was wondering if anyone out there might be able to talk about

>the limitations of flash4 as far as user compatability and problems they've

>had with plug-in detection, etc.



Well, one piece of good news is that Flash4 movies will play using the 

Flash3 plug-in, but the viewer just won't be able to hear MP3-compressed 

sound nor will they be able to see anything relying on Flash4 improvements 

such as ActionScript. So, you can plan around that and still have great fun 

learning Flash4 features and enjoying the authoring conveniences that were 

added to Flash4. Even if creating only straight Flash3, the upgrade to 4 is 

probably worth the authoring features alone (improved timeline 

manipulation, palette control, better library organization, etc.).




Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

.

My Flash Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>

(featured in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn)



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