Re: FLASH: FLASH 99% BAD

[love death]

Here is a broad band Flash Site, please don't try it if you're not on a 

broad band (T1 or upper) connection.


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From: "Andrew Le Sage" <ajselectra-uk [dot] com>

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Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

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To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

>Subject: Re: FLASH: FLASH 99% BAD

>Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:12:54 -0000

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>True what you say but this form of web design is only at the beginning. 

>What will happen when everyone in the western world is Broad Band, file 

>size will not matter. It is also easier to protect you or your clients work 

>in Flash, particularly if it is music. It is more flexible than HTML and if 

>people are to stupid not to realise they are viewing Flash and that the 

>browser buttons do not work the way they do it HTML I do not think I want 

>them on my site. Most visual artists like painters that I have worked with 

>love the zoom feature. At the end of the day the only thing really going 

>against Flash is the file size. In the future this will not matter so much 

>and in the mean time you can design with it in mind, you can look at the 

>bandwidth profiler and load images before you need to show them when there 

>is a drop in the rate of streaming. A little thought goes a long way. I 

>feel that too often people get caught up in the tech and forget the art or 

>visa versa, we need a nice balance. Sometimes a stunning design will not 

>have tons of animations just one or two very small ones in the right place 

>and time.

>That is what I think.

>A

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

>   From: Thorvald Neumann

>   To: Chris Lucania

>   Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 4:00 PM

>   Subject: Re: FLASH: FLASH 99% BAD

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>

>   Hejsan!

>

>   Monday, October 30, 2000, 4:13:43 PM, Chris Lucania wrote:

>   > FLASH 99% BAD

>   > Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for October 29 is now online at:

>   > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html

>

>   What's wrong with it? It is informative and partly reasonable.

>

>   There are many Flash "designers" out in the WWW, who do not think on

>   the usability of their Flash "masterpiece".

>

>   Major concerns are IMHO:

>

>   - file sizes should be kept small (use more movies with smaller size

>   than one big movie...)

>

>   - designing against general usability guidelines (e.g. wrong side of

>   navigation, too much "flashing" and too much movement everywhere on

>   the screen, etc. etc.)

>

>   - fullscreen mode (disables people desktops, quite annoying when

>   desktop is set to 1600x1280...)

>

>   - navigational elements of the browser do not work within a Flash

>   movie (which e.g. leads to an overall back-button which navigates the

>   HTML core pages, and internal back-buttons within the Flash movie...)

>   --> You can emulate the buttons from Flash, but you cannot get the

>   --> browser to directly address you Flash movie... This would be a

>   --> cool feature...

>

>   Just some thoughts.

>

>   Considering Nielsen's concerns, it is obvious that there should be at

>   least a small HTML-page accompagning a Flash site.

>

>   And do not forget: Nielsen has another approach to webdesign, but I

>   would not call him a "web guru" as I read in some other magazines

>   earlier this year.

>

>   Best wishes,

>

>      Thorvald Neumann

>      Multimedia Developer

>

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