Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-07 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 17:07 pm, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: It does matter, your player is out of date : The web site should say that then. I only installed it a month or so ago ! What is the current version now and I'll go upgrade and try again. -- Tom C Land of the free, home of the

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-07 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
The latest version is 6,0,79,0 ...it has been upgraded due to a security issue within the player... HTH Neil -Original Message- From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 March 2003 15:02 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 17

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-07 Thread Todd
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash At 03:01 PM 3/7/2003 +, you wrote: On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 17:07 pm, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: It does matter, your player is out of date : The web site should say that then. I only installed it

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-07 Thread Michael Kear
How do you find out which version is installed? (Using IE6.0.28 and winXPPro)? Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 8 March 2003 2:04 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-07 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Friday 07 Mar 2003 15:08 pm, Todd wrote: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=S Oh, look, going from r69 to r79 hasn't improved a thing mock surprise -- Tom C Land of the free, home of the brave... you have to be brave to live there and enjoy the

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-07 Thread Mike Chambers
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/test_version.htm mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Michael Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:18 AM Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! How do you

RE: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! -- THE END

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Kear
fantastic - I wish I could design sites that look that good), but because of the way it works (or doesn't). Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -Original Message- From: Pablo Varando [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: New Macromedia.com launched

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-06 Thread Nick de Voil
Sorry, way OT by now. I took a seminar a while back on Section 508 and they explained that the word Handicap was given to disabled people because most disabled people at the time were Vietnam vets. The word handy capped means to had out a baseball call in and ask for a hand out. What a

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Kear
To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! It would be nice if the Macromedia website validated to some version of the (X)HTML standard. Then we would not only know who to blame if a certain browser failed to work properly, but it would also be a nice conclusion of the efforts

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-06 Thread David Collie (itndac)
Is there anyway you can get Outlook to ignore conversation threads ;-) -Original Message- From: Michael Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 March 2003 10:42 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! Jochem, you make a good point. One of the major criticisms

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 09:44 am, Oliver Cookson wrote: The new Macromedia.com has been launched and its looks excellent (if a little slow in places). *in places* ? Everywhere ! Just visting the front page causes my CPU to jump to 100% and stay there. The menus are *highly* unresponsive. At

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 16:43 pm, Bill Wheatley wrote: Hopefully they fix the opera thing quickly. I mean its only a browser with 10%, and growing, of the market. What market ? -- Tom C Land of the free, home of the brave... you have to be brave to live there and enjoy the freedoms

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-06 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Hey Thomas, what Flash Player version are you running? -Original Message- From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 March 2003 16:51 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 09:44 am, Oliver Cookson wrote: The new Macromedia.com has

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 18:52 pm, Christian Cantrell wrote: Evolution is not always easy, but somebody has to do it. Yeah, but don't do it in *public* FFS ! Not that you can roll it back - you'll get even more stick. -- Tom C Land of the free, home of the brave... you have to be brave to

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 16:49 pm, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: Hey Thomas, what Flash Player version are you running? I have no idea. Hold on... File name: libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 6.0 r69 apperently. Not that it matters. If it's shite in version X, and you know it is shite

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-06 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
It does matter, your player is out of date : -Original Message- From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 March 2003 17:05 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 16:49 pm, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: Hey Thomas, what Flash

RE: New Macromedia.com launched! -- THE END

2003-03-06 Thread Matt Robertson
As Stan points out, I never realized how much I desperately need a right-click Open in New Window until it disappeared in the DevEx. That one is definitely going into the feedback form. Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc.

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-06 Thread Jillian Carroll
If version 6.0 isn't bleeding edge enough... that's a problem as far as I'm concerned. -- Jillian -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 6, 2003 11:08 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! It does matter

RE: New Macromedia.com launched! -- THE END

2003-03-06 Thread Ezine
How about holding down shift when clicking on the link? (the keyboard shortcut?) -Zine -Original Message- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:54 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! -- THE END As Stan points out, I never

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-06 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Jillian Carroll wrote: If version 6.0 isn't bleeding edge enough... that's a problem as far as I'm concerned. They should all work on the site. But older versions have security issues. But it would be nice if the Macromedia site warned you if you weren't using the lastest and greatest

Re: New Macromedia.com launched! -- THE END

2003-03-06 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Ezine wrote: -Original Message- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:54 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! -- THE END As Stan points out, I never realized how much I desperately need a right-click Open in New

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Andre Mohamed
Pity the top toolbar on the home page doesn't work how it's supposed to :) Other than that, looks great. I wouldn't like to load it over a modem though! -Original Message- From: Oliver Cookson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2003 09:45 To: CF-Talk Subject: New Macromedia.com

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
I like the new design, but it still suffers from the old back button problem which is a real usability issue; I preferred the old site : much cleaner. -Original Message- From: Andre Mohamed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2003 10:59 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Ryan Sabir
, Neil (RX) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:06 PM Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! I like the new design, but it still suffers from the old back button problem which is a real usability issue; I preferred the old site : much cleaner

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Ryan Sabir wrote: I went into the accessibility section, and turned on the HTML version which Unfortunately, the downloads section appears to ignore the mediaprefs=gif cookie (and the downloads section is completely inaccessible in every Lynx version I have). Jochem

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread paris lundis
the old back button problem which is a real usability issue; I preferred the old site : much cleaner. -Original Message- From: Andre Mohamed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2003 10:59 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! Pity the top toolbar on the home page doesn't

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
March 2003 15:11 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! Marcromedia needs to stop it with all their flash everywhere... it's bad design, slow and confusing in many regards... They keep changing the groupings of things as well ... quite a pain this morning to find the Exchanges... had

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Jillian Carroll
in this browser) - IE 6 (the links in the main 'top' bar don't work properly) It's unfortunate. -- Jillian -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 5, 2003 9:21 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! I

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Benoit Hediard
Come on guys... it is a Beta version. Is there only never happy people on this list? Marcromedia needs to stop it with all their flash everywhere... it's bad design, slow and confusing in many regards... I disagree about the bad design and confusing things arguments (... agree about the slow

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2003 15:11 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! Marcromedia needs to stop it with all their flash everywhere... it's bad design, slow and confusing in many regards... They keep changing the groupings of things as well ... quite a pain this morning

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Christian Cantrell
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 10:11 AM, paris lundis wrote: They keep changing the groupings of things as well ... quite a pain this morning to find the Exchanges... had to use the site map The locations of sections and applications on the site should not have changed, although in many

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Christian Cantrell
' bar don't work properly) It's unfortunate. -- Jillian -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 5, 2003 9:21 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! I can't say I am too happy with the new site (it was nice

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Willy Ray
: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! I'm surprised MM would launch this site given: - Jakob Neilson (and other usability professionals) are going to be watching - They are trying to 'sell sell sell' the idea that Flash has matured and is now faster, friendlier, etc. For my own interest

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread jon hall
Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 11:02:27 AM, you wrote: CC We know there are still some rough edges, and we will get them worked CC out. Just keep in mind that this project was a massive effort, so it CC will take a little time to get all the kinks worked out. This would be the crux of the matter to

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Scott Wilhelm
-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! Come on guys... it is a Beta version. Is there only never happy people on this list? Marcromedia needs to stop it with all their flash everywhere... it's bad design, slow and confusing in many regards... I disagree about the bad design and confusing

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Christian Cantrell
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 10:59 AM, Benoit Hediard wrote: They keep changing the groupings of things as well ... quite a pain this morning to find the Exchanges... had to use the site map Not very hard... Select Product ColdFusion MX on the home page, and then you'll get a

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Dobris, Eric
Tried to use opera 7 and it just keeps reloading the main page. -Original Message- From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:17 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 11:02:27 AM, you wrote: CC We know

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Scott Wilhelm
Does MM really think that all developers have broadband??? I'm on a lan now, and it takes a while to load. I can't imagine how long it will take my home PC on a dial-up. Scott -Original Message- From: Oliver Cookson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 4:45 AM To:

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Mike Chambers
The exchange is linked from the Download page, which itself is linked from virtually every page on the site. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: paris lundis [EMAIL PROTECTED] They keep changing the groupings of things as well ... quite a pain this morning to

Re: RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread mike . wokasch
Benoit - First point, if it's beta, why is it on their production site? Furthermore, it fails some of the most basic requirements (i.e. document validity). Moreover, it doesn't even have alt tags on some images. Second, Flash, in of itself, may not be bad design or confusing, but it certainly

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Benoit Hediard
News Beta. Benoit Hediard www.benorama.com -Message d'origine- De : Scott Wilhelm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mercredi 5 mars 2003 17:21 À : CF-Talk Objet : RE: New Macromedia.com launched! If it's a beta version, why is it public then? I mean, I wouldn't think that it's

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Wheatley
: Christian Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:12 AM Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! The new macromedia.com is certainly a next generation site, and unfortunately, there are going to be issues like the ones you mention below. I hope people

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Wheatley
properly) It's unfortunate. -- Jillian -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 5, 2003 9:21 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! I can't say I am too happy with the new site (it was nice to look at first off

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Jason Miller
Yea but the issue with the mm home page is that it takes initially a while to load, then every click I make has this sluggishness to it, and most of the buttons create a page request which seems contradict macromedia flashes power of reducing http requests. On a few flash lists I am active on

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Scott Brady
-- Original Message -- From: Benoit Hediard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Come on guys... it is a Beta version. If it's truly a Beta version as it says, then going to http://www.macromedia.com should not go to the new site. It should go to the old site with a Check

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Willy Ray
launch to the public several months ago (nearly a year) and it is still Google News Beta. Benoit Hediard www.benorama.com -Message d'origine- De : Scott Wilhelm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] EnvoyT : mercredi 5 mars 2003 17:21 + : CF-Talk Objet : RE: New Macromedia.com launched! If it's

Re: RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread mike . wokasch
) and it is still Google News Beta. Benoit Hediard www.benorama.com -Message d'origine- De : Scott Wilhelm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mercredi 5 mars 2003 17:21 À : CF-Talk Objet : RE: New Macromedia.com launched! If it's a beta version, why is it public then? I mean

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Turetsky, Seth
Let's get Jakob Nielsen to end this -Original Message- From: Jason Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 2:52 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! Yea but the issue with the mm home page is that it takes initially a while to load

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Bruce Sorge
with other companies sites? - Original Message - From: Bill Wheatley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:43 AM Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! That is the biggest load of BS i've heard all day. Its a website! Test the crap before

Re: RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Benoit Hediard
Hi Mike, Furthermore, it fails some of the most basic requirements (i.e. document validity). I don't think that XHTML compliance is so important, as soon as the site provides XML-compliant feeds of its content. Second, Flash, in of itself, may not be bad design or confusing, but it

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Pablo Varando
: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:00 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! Come on guys... it is a Beta version. Is there only never happy people on this list? Marcromedia needs to stop it with all their flash everywhere... it's bad design, slow and confusing in many

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Scott Wilhelm wrote: Does MM really think that all developers have broadband??? I'm on a lan now, and it takes a while to load. I can't imagine how long it will take my home PC on a dial-up. Run a counter on your connection, client side bandwidth is not the issue, it is something else. I

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Pablo Varando
11:01 AM Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! You know that MM is not the only site that does not work well with Opera. Wells Fargo Bank's On-Line banking does not work well either. There are a few others that do not work with Opera, so MM is not the only one out

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Jason Miller
: Jason Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 2:52 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! Yea but the issue with the mm home page is that it takes initially a while to load, then every click I make has this sluggishness to it, and most of the buttons

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Joshua Miller
] * -Original Message- From: Turetsky, Seth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:57 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! Let's get Jakob Nielsen to end this -Original Message- From: Jason Miller [mailto

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Scott Wilhelm
stuff, but falls short on the big picture, and now needs to work on damage control. Scott -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! You know that MM is not the only site

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Will Swain
I quite like it (the new site I mean). w -Original Message- From: Pablo Varando [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2003 17:18 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! Tell me about it... it sure would be nice on all of us if all the browsers would get together

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Will Swain
theres a few things I can think of getting Nielsen to end... ;) w -Original Message- From: Turetsky, Seth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2003 16:57 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! Let's get Jakob Nielsen to end this -Original Message- From

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Bruce Sorge wrote: You know that MM is not the only site that does not work well with Opera. Wells Fargo Bank's On-Line banking does not work well either. Wells Fargo is not a member of the W3C. Macromedia is. It would be nice if the Macromedia website validated to some version of the (X)HTML

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! That's about the dumbest thing I've heard in the conversations today. If 10% of the market uses Opera, it's an established browser...Why shouldn't a site test for it? Especially a company such as Macromedia. They screwed up big time. They designed a site

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Pablo Varando
-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:18 AM Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! All due respect to Mr. Neilsen, but he's a boring old codger. While usability is important it's NOT the be-all end-all of web design and development. I'm not sure how he became the de-facto

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Turetsky, Seth
Entirely agree -Original Message- From: Joshua Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! All due respect to Mr. Neilsen, but he's a boring old codger. While usability is important it's NOT the be-all

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Scott Mulholland
But from what I hear he's one hell of a dancer! -Original Message- From: Joshua Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! All due respect to Mr. Neilsen, but he's a boring old codger. While usability

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Wheatley
Yea but it wasnt googles man page ;) - Original Message - From: Benoit Hediard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:40 AM Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! If it's a beta version, why is it public then? Sometimes when you are trying

Re: New Macromedia.com launched! - Give it a rest!

2003-03-05 Thread Stephen Moretti
Let's get Jakob Nielsen to end this That'd be a waste of time and money... daft old codger!! I wouldn't listen to too much that he says these days - the guy is still stuck in his ways from the early 90's when what he had to say was true and perfectly acceptable for the state of the network

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread charlie griefer
there to show 10% Opera usage, I'd love to see it (yes, i -am- skeptical) :) charlie Scott -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! You know that MM

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
the issue is here is that it says its XHTML - which it isnt. -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2003 17:35 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! Bruce Sorge wrote: You know that MM is not the only site that does not work

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Benoit Hediard
the past several weeks Netscape usage hasn't been higher than 4 percent, Johnston said. Benoit Hediard www.benorama.com -Message d'origine- De : Scott Wilhelm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mercredi 5 mars 2003 18:21 À : CF-Talk Objet : RE: New Macromedia.com launched! That's

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Will Swain
Agreed...most of our sites have no more than 1% hits from Opera users, according to our web stats. w -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2003 17:30 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! I dont think its dumb

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread charlie griefer
I agree 100% with this. We can go on and on ad nauseum (and likely will) debating over who sucks more...Macromedia or Opera. I'd have to say at this point, they're both in the 'wrong' (for lack of a better term). As Jochem said, if MM would validate to a w3 standard, such as XHTML, that

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Wheatley
needs to get on board and make their browser work with other companies sites? - Original Message - From: Bill Wheatley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:43 AM Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! That is the biggest load of BS i've heard

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Stephen Moretti
Pablo, Don't let a disabled person hear you call them Handicapped, that is the Politically incorrect term (by the way). I took a seminar a while back on Section 508 and they explained that the word Handicap was given to disabled people because most disabled people at the time were Vietnam

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Joshua Miller
PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:18 AM Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! All due respect to Mr. Neilsen, but he's a boring old codger. While usability is important it's NOT the be-all end-all of web design and development. I'm not sure how he

RE: New Macromedia.com launched! - Give it a rest!

2003-03-05 Thread Joshua Miller
] * -Original Message- From: Stephen Moretti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:46 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! - Give it a rest! Let's get Jakob Nielsen to end this That'd be a waste of time

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Wheatley
- Original Message - From: Pablo Varando [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:17 PM Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! Tell me about it... it sure would be nice on all of us if all the browsers would get together and use a single standard

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Jim Curran
I'm glad to see that the devex search is still as slow as it used to be... At least that didn't change... - jim ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription:

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Dave Watts
Now, we can only guess whether Macromedia or Opera is to blame and wait until somebody produces an XHTML compliant copy of the Macromedia website to prove it is possible, just like in the past Microsoft [1] and others have been proven to just not care about about the standards they

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Willy Ray
, Johnston said. Benoit Hediard www.benorama.com -Message d'origine- De : Scott Wilhelm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] EnvoyT : mercredi 5 mars 2003 18:21 + : CF-Talk Objet : RE: New Macromedia.com launched! That's about the dumbest thing I've heard in the conversations today. If 10

OT: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! -- handicapped

2003-03-05 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Don't let a disabled person hear you call them Handicapped, that is the Politically incorrect term (by the way). I took a seminar a while back on Section 508 and they explained that the word Handicap was given to disabled people because most disabled people at the time were Vietnam vets.

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread charlie griefer
-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! Don't let a disabled person hear you call them Handicapped, that is the Politically incorrect term (by the way). I took a seminar a while back on Section 508 and they explained that the word Handicap was given to disabled people because most

RE: New Macromedia.com launched! - Give it a rest!

2003-03-05 Thread Jim Davis
Let's get Jakob Nielsen to end this That'd be a waste of time and money... daft old codger!! I wouldn't listen to too much that he says these days - the guy is still stuck in his ways from the early 90's when what he had to say was true and perfectly acceptable for the state of

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Adrocknaphobia Jones
: Stephen Moretti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:57 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! Pablo, Don't let a disabled person hear you call them Handicapped, that is the Politically incorrect term (by the way). I took a seminar a while back on Section

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread news
Nice one on the technote about why we won't be able to see half the site: http://www.macromedia.com/support/general/ts/documents/macromedia.com_site_r equire.htm scroll down Last updated:February 3, 2003 Created:February 12, 2003 Can anyone see something funny here?

Re: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! -- THE END

2003-03-05 Thread Pablo Varando
, March 05, 2003 12:21 PM Subject: OT: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! -- handicapped Don't let a disabled person hear you call them Handicapped, that is the Politically incorrect term (by the way). I took a seminar a while back on Section 508 and they explained that the word Handicap

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Christian Cantrell
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 12:20 PM, Scott Wilhelm wrote: They designed a site that looks good, tries to do some fancy stuff, but falls short on the big picture, and now needs to work on damage control. I won't speak for other Macromedia employees, but for the record, do not mistake any

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Bryan Stevenson
:27 AM Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! Political Correctness is evil. While I appreciate Pablo's input...isn't it just as 'politically incorrect' to generalize about a particular group of people? Pablo: 'they get really pissed if you call them handicapped' Just making a point

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Pablo Varando
Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! Political Correctness is evil. While I appreciate Pablo's input...isn't it just as 'politically incorrect' to generalize about a particular group of people? Pablo: 'they get really pissed if you call them handicapped' Just making a point :) Charlie

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Barney Boisvert
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:38 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! Nice one on the technote about why we won't be able to see half the site: http://www.macromedia.com/support/general/ts/documents

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: charlie griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! Political Correctness is evil. While I appreciate Pablo's input...isn't it just as 'politically incorrect

Re: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! -- THE END

2003-03-05 Thread Bryan Stevenson
- From: Pablo Varando [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:51 AM Subject: Re: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! -- THE END You know I never really use Opera (nothing other then Netscape or IE really), however you have to ask yourself this. While being

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: charlie griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! Political Correctness is evil. While I appreciate Pablo's input...isn't it just as 'politically incorrect

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: charlie griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New Macromedia.com launched! Political Correctness is evil. While I appreciate Pablo's input...isn't it just as 'politically incorrect

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread charlie griefer
Jim Davis writes: That's why I skirt the whole handicapped (implies cap in hand!) vrs disabled (implied broken in some way!) issue and go with Cripple. You definitely get the 'Two Posts in One Day to CF-Talk That Made Milk Come Out of Charlie's Nose' award (the other one being your

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread samcfug
| That's why I skirt the whole handicapped (implies cap in hand!) vrs | disabled (implied broken in some way!) issue and go with Cripple. | | Jim Davis | ROTFLMAO! I am partially disabled. That is parts of me that used to function, don't any more. The signs in parking lots still say

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Matt Robertson
: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! All due respect to Mr. Neilsen, but he's a boring old codger. While usability is important it's NOT the be-all end-all of web design and development. I'm not sure how he became the de-facto lord of web

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Stacy Young
Checkout Alan Cooper...his books rule all and is much more practical for design purposes in my humble opinion... -Stace -Original Message- From: Joshua Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! All

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread charlie griefer
Jillian Carroll writes: You're missing the point. It doesn't matter whether Jakon Neilsen is right or wrong... what matters is that whenever he writes a sentence about what he thinks about a site... millions of people read it. Doesn't matter in the long run. Publicity is publicity. If

RE: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Jillian Carroll
Two companies doing something incorrectly doesn't make it correct. -- Jillian -Original Message- From: Benoit Hediard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 5, 2003 10:41 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! If it's a beta version, why is it public

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread charlie griefer
to me, just paypal it :) Charlie -Original Message- From: Benoit Hediard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 5, 2003 10:41 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Macromedia.com launched! If it's a beta version, why is it public then? Sometimes when you are trying

Re: New Macromedia.com launched!

2003-03-05 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Christian Cantrell wrote: I won't speak for other Macromedia employees, but for the record, do not mistake any of my posts for damage control. Macromedia took a big step forward with our new website, and although we certainly have plenty of tweaks to make, we are fully confident in our

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