FLASH: Re: FLASH 99% BAD

[sahlan cherpitel]

hi all,

my 2 pixels worth


feel it's right to back up thorvald, fortune, roland, rebecca, meshach &

others who made reasonable comments -- though can't read nielsen's article

right now because i'm optimizing 3 dozen 1 meg photoshop picts sitting on my

desk top for a phototour -- just taking a break by reading today's digests

-- & don't want to risk a crash & lose histories by calling up IE


having read  nielsen before, i agree he's bandwidth conservative & of the

do-it-with-littliest-bytes-possible school (which, within context is valid),

& he reflects a view that may be majority, because, friends, we live in an

internet world that is by my guess, still 85% on dial-up, just like 85% use

WIN & not mac


overall the web by normal standards is an effed up mess & we are the

pioneers cutting through the woods, blazing the trails, showing the way,

however, we need to be careful not to endorse trails that lead to people

being stranded, such as one guide did to the donner party a century & a half

ago (US lore:  while crossing the California sierras, the donner party got

stuck in the snow & the few who survived ate the dead)


like pioneers, we live under conditions that are intolerable by normal

standards, yet we chose this path, & most of us are making money at it


that's all

& forgive me, please, if i said anything that offends anyone, as i did when

i spoke on our responsibility as developers a few weeks ago


sahlan


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