Maragret, I felt the need to chime in on this with a question. I am thinking of designing an ecommerce app and would like the entire site to be done in flash. One of the things that concerns me is the indexing by search engines...If I go this way, would I be limiting myself with small search results, since their will only be one page to index?
Douglas Brown Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean A Corfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 10:58 AM Subject: Re: Flash Rich App Approach = Macromedia? > On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 08:57 , Joe Eugene wrote: > > Does Flash add any more USABILITY to existing critical applications...? > > Yes. The HTML-based web experience is not exactly ideal... Look at the > scenario of booking a flight, for example. See how many pages you have to > click through trying to find a suitable flight? Enter the dates and > perhaps some target times, click, wait, results come back that don't suit > - change some values, click, wait, results come back that are better - > select a specific flight, click, wait, make a seating choice, click, wait, > click, enter passenger information etc, click, wait, realize you mistyped > your address - click 'change' button, wait, correct your address, click, > wait, enter credit card information, click, wait, verify order, click, > wait, done. > > A well-designed Flash UI can break this down to a single page with pretty > much instant feedback on flight times, availability, seating choices etc. > The 'wait' parts of the experience are reduced to milliseconds by using > direct Flash / ColdFusion calls that bring back only the data you need, > instead of bringing back an entire page of HTML. Flash allows multiple > panels to share the same screen real estate, sliding in and out as needed > - allowing you to go back and forth in the process, making any changes you > need without ever having to wait for a new page of HTML to come back from > the server. > > A Flash UI can also cache data locally and maintain its state from > invocation to invocation, again making a much better user experience than > HTML can hope for. > > "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
