Re: FLASH: bad design with Flash

[Mathew Bevan]

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-----

From: John Croteau <

croteauerols [dot] com

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To: <

flashershocker [dot] com

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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.

---- snip----





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