Sean,
Sounds like an Applet....
download the entire dataset to the user and have a static application
with frames moving in and out....with changing params...? and the
screen is never refreshed? so how is client/session state managed?
Interesting.. wonder how it scales to download datasets..cache them
and run them as client apps?
Joe
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.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 1:58 PM
To: CF-Talk
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
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