Macromedia's "push" for Flash is not about "over and above" CF development.
It's about separating application functionality from content display. This is win-win for both the website visitor and your business clients: A number of companies have already saved tons of money in bandwidth cost - I believe I remember one company saying they had saved 75% of thier bandwidth cost, and less need for additional hardware, while increasing site usage and customer satisfaction. Using Flash as the display and UI mechanism for your web-app, you don't have to re-serve an entire HTML page everytime the display needs to be updated (i.e., totals recalculated, dates changed, etc). Instead, you deliver the display once, and then that display (the Flash UI) can exchange smaller bits of data with the server, without re-delivering the display, as is done in HTML based web-apps. This can result in significant hardware and bandwidth savings. This also makes for a very nice experience for the user - fewer pauses and page refreshes/rebuilds/redeliveries. And, you can get a lot more functionality in a smaller space using Flash as the UI for your webapp. It just "feels" more like an application, rather than "web pages." A good commercial site to see this in action is the Broadmoor Hotel: http://reservations.broadmoor.com/ The Designer & Developer Center has a "blue print" Rich Internet application which is fully documented, and there's quite a bit of information which outlines the advantages of using a Flash UI for your webapps: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/blueprint/ I hope this helps shed some light on how we think Rich Internet Applications will move "doing things" on the internet to the next level! Vernon Viehe ColdFusion Community Manager Developer Relations Macromedia, Inc. Online diary: http://vvmx.blogspot.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Bonnie E. Betts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 7:16 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Does Macromedia have some current strong Flash agenda? > > > Is it me, or has anyone else noticed there's a REALLY strong > push for = > Flash lately at all the CFUGs and conferences?? Is there any > particular = > reason for this? > > I like Flash - don't get me wrong. But I view it as a GUI > frill that I = > doubt I can sell to my clients who want a functional business = > application. Anyone here can tell me why/how I could sell > them Flash = > which would be over and above CF development? > > Bonnie E. Betts > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.bettsIT.com > 703.508.9766 > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
