I would think any competent UI person would consider usability an inherent business requirement. So obviously, if the UI feels slow or klunky to the user than it isn't really usable. However, that doesn't mean that performance and bandwidth are a consideration. This thread started out comparing the bandwidth utilization of html based web applications vs. Flash applications. The statement was that the Flash application would use less bandwidth. So, let's assume that two Flash applications had a similar UI, but were implemented differently. The first UI used considerably less bandwidth than the second, but both used less bandwidth than their html equivalents. Additionally, let's assume that the first UI used less bandwidth because the Flash developer spent time trying to reduce the bandwidth usage.
With all that in mind I ask you the following. If both UIs use an acceptable amount of bandwidth, was it as waste of developer time to attempt to solve a business problem that wasn't there? Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ V: 415-577-8070 F: 415-341-8906 P: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 12:40 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Does Macromedia have some current strong Flash agenda? > > On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 12:17 , Matt Liotta wrote: > > If the business requirements do not include performance or bandwidth > > considerations than they shouldn't be an issue. > > If the business requirements do not include performance or bandwidth > considerations then someone (the "business analyst" or whatever you want > to call them) isn't doing their job! > > Sure, business people often don't think about explicitly adding these > things into their requirements, but they usually *assume* that you will > deliver a system that is 'fast enough'. It's much better to get bounds on > that sort of things up front that to second-guess the business user and > deliver a great system only for them to bitch about it being slow... > > Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com 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
