I agree totally Dave... You always have the good insight... DHTML, JS, and even Flash still aren't rapid...That's per se a problem... Modular, it is perhaps.. still not ColdFusion modular I suspect... Flash is universal in operation (mostly it seems)... Flash has a great potential for the CD rom to the web sort of things... those who use it for web content beware, I suspect major backlash will start happening...
Like the other day I was at weather.com... trying to see what the weather was going to be... simple task right... not when a thing starts moving across my screen... and before that, the wait of the Flash starting... I imagine, turning Flash on and off selectively via browser or other setting is going to become more common as it should...who knows, maybe it already has... I was recently looking at some mid 1980s stuff I wrote for my commodore when I was programming BBS software. I wrote a bunch of code that effectively did pseudo web stuff... at that time, sending a GIF over a slow 1200 or 2400 baud modem... Message forums were created back then too by me... nothing radically different... content still... Only benefit I see today is this multiple user environment we lacked back then for live time interaction of groups.. Hell if I had a 300 MHz Commodore and a 56k modem it probably would have been built... Point here is, not a whole bunch has changed... Sure more graphics, more bloat, faster processors, more bandwidth... Same general functions... Larger audience... Nothing radically new... UI is 'seemingly' important... well your clients will tell you that junk all day long...Heck you might even believe it... The power is in the information, the enabler is the application... Ask the folks at General Motors who in the early 1990s hired design specialists... They claim they can show not tangible benefit or loss attributable... basically, in the big sense of things design matters very little. There are exceptions in markets that stand out... but as an average, people still carry paper bags for lunch, not Eames designed uber cool lunch boxes... People live in normal houses, not Real World bachelor pads.. People drive Ford Taurus and Honda Accord's not Lamborghini's... Design is a subtle art at best.. Flash holds great promise as a portal, a viewer for all devices... Providing a one creation interface that runs on phones, PDAs, computers, refrigerators, etc. is by far the most attractive feature of Flash, bar none. Paris Lundis Founder Areaindex, L.L.C. http://www.areaindex.com http://www.pubcrawler.com (p) 1-212-655-4477 [finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present] [connecting people, places and things] -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 10:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Does Macromedia have some current strong Flash agenda? > point well said is that why even use Flash.... any number of > solutions via Javascript or other stuff via DHTML... Because, as hard as Flash may be, equivalent DHTML may be much harder - or not possible at all. Try writing a cross-browser drag-and-drop DHTML interface, for example. > ... it certainly stops everything I am doing until Flash gets > it act moving... which can be a pain in the hind when I am > just browsing a site looking for relevant content.... I think that's a good differentiation you make - Flash isn't really suitable for content. HTML is better for that. Flash, on the other hand, is better for applications in many ways. So, no, Flash isn't an ideal replacement for HTML. They are suitable for different things. But there's no way that you can argue that HTML makes a good application interface. It doesn't. It's a giant step backwards, really, for application interfaces - maybe as good as the best interface functionality of the early 1980s, let's say. Yecch. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
