Re: FLASH: Posted without permission

[Michael Penne]

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>   So, how can flash be used if not for animations?


Great for interface and interactivity:

for instance did this site over the summer, replaced a

mostly static site with a flash site that clients find

much faster and easier to navigate:

http://www.humboldt.edu/~ac


> 

> I'm really starting to worry about the marketing

> capability of my news

> channel account.  They want the entire site flashed

> and yet they want to go

> up against CNN?  


My biggest worry about banking too much on Flash comes

from being dependent on Macromedia's players. What

they did with merging the Shockwave/F4 player (and the

idiotic shockmachine stuff), and making it the defualt

download, exactly what I hated about Real (G2) and one

big thing I loved about Flash 4 (400kb player

download). Now that theyhave gone and 'improved' the

player into bloatware, AND THAT THEY DID SO WITHOUT

ANY WARNING/CONSULTATION to us developers, was very

upsetting. After demoing several sites and how easy it

was to load the (old f4)player, 1 week after we went

'live' began receiving numerous complaints about

having to wait hours to download and install the F4

player, and subsequent comnplaints about shockmachine.

MACR took what was a nearly invisible process

(upgrading) and made it very intrusive.  O well, I'm

still excited about using the power of action script,

etc. to increase interactivity, however, I'd recommend

checking out Livestage(QT vector animation and

scripting: http://www.totallyhip.com) and SMIL(G2

scripting: http://www.w3.org/) in case MACR has any

more nasty surprises up their sleave... 


PS I also feel that both G2 and QT4 have some serious

problems with bloat and interface, however, it _used_

to be that Flash was a much more download friendly,

unobtrusive plug-in. With the recent 'improvements',

all three are about equally painful to ask a client to

swallow, and so it becomes a matter of best

functionality. For your client, I would suggest really

looking into QT 4 and livestage instead of flash, much

better handling of sound (Q-design) and of course

video, and decent vector and scrpting support as well.

Check out the QT tv section of

http://www.apple.com/quicktime for entire interfaces

built in QT (FOX Sports, HBO, etc...)

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