Flasher Archive

[Previous] [Next] - [Index] [Thread Index] - [Previous in Thread] [Next in Thread]

Subject:	AW: FLASH: Is internet design with Flash possible? ;-)
From:	Robert Warnke
Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:31:14 GMT

Hi Bob,

: One of the things we are going to see in 1999 is that Flash will take its
: rightful place alongside HTML, JavaScript, Java, animated gifs, etc. as a
: new Internet Standard. This will happen due to the blessing Flash has
: received from Netscape, which will be supporting Flash natively in its
: browser, and AOL which has pledged allegiance to low bandwidth hungry
: applications like Flash.

But what is with the UNIX user? And what is with the MS-I-Explorer user they
switch the security level high (no Flash work then)? What is with the search
engines? They can't jump over a Flash interaction.

: It may be bad design in terms of the old medium -- in this case HTML. But
: that is like saying that web pages suck because they don't look as good as
: the printed page. Flash is not just a web page in a different file format.
: It is a whole new medium. Like McLuhan said, The medium is the massage. He
: also said that all new media are initially perceived in terms of the old
: media. Thus we talk of web "pages" (when we know they are really
: files). We
: will see the world in new ways through the Flash window. I like
: to say that
: having a web site is like having your own TV channel -- with all that
: implies. Having a Flash site is like having your own movie
: studio, with all
: that implies.

Please come down! Flash - the new Jesus? :-)
What is really new? OK some neat things. But there are some disadvantage
too.
A bad design with Flash has more disadvantage than neat things. And I saw a
lot of bad design with Flash.

Robert Warnke
Berlin (Germany)
http://rowa.giso.de

------------------------------------------------------------------------
To UNSUBSCRIBE send: unsubscribe flasher in the body of an
email to list-manager