Well I wasn't part of the original dogpile, but a few things that bug me: 1. Search results in Support don't indicate what product version they're for. You have to click on the item and it's still sometimes hard to tell. Some items tell you the exact product such as Flash MX 2004, others just say "Flash" even when referring to something like local shared objects.
2. Examples that don't explicitly say what version they're for. http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/addressbook.html Yes that says 'using Macromedia Flash MX's new "Flash UI Components"' but the a new user the distinctions between MX and MX 2004 are completely lost. I've had people unfamiliar with the Macromedia tools ask which was newer. 3. Update examples for new tools. In that same Address Book example, I really stumbled with the code since it's AS1.0. But there's not as good of an example for what I wanted for AS 2.0. 4. Pages that are part of a series that don't indicate that at the top or have a sidebar of pages or whatever. http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/addressbook_5.2.html 5. Seemingly random pages are slow to load (over 10 seconds) and sometimes don't have the site template around the content. This is one that just took forever then loaded without the template (a reload fixed it): http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flashcom/articles/comm_components.html (Can you tell what I've been trying to learn? And why name them something as obscure as "shared objects" when "cookies" would have been so much more obvious?) 6. Exchange. When the site switched to cfmx/flash, the Exchange was hard to use so I just haven't bothered to go back. You could probably even tell me that it's better but I'll still just google for something before trying to use it again. I just find Flash UI for things like that to be more trouble to use than predictable HTML pages. 7. When I tried the forums a year or more ago, they seemed overpopulated by the clueless trying to help the clueless. Again, I learned to just not use them. -Kevin On 8/9/05, John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, but thanks. Are these any particular pages... the Store vs > technotes, for instance? Is it all times of every day, or does it > perform differently at different times? Does it perform differently when > tested with different connections (at work vs home, eg)? > > (This is the type of stuff the web team would ask me if I printed your > description and carried it downstairs.) > > tx, > jd > > > > -- > John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA > Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd > Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs > Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ > Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:168661 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
