On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 17:08 US/Pacific, Barney Boisvert wrote: > I completely agree with you Bryan. I was very surprised that MM left > any > HTML in the site at all, and think that generated most of the problems.
Interesting. We get criticized for using too much Flash as well as for not using enough Flash! :) > think part of the motivation was that they have some standard page > layouts > that wouldn't work in a pure flash environment. Part of the 'problem' is that we have 30,000 static pages and many of them are very large documents with multiple images and movies embedded in them. Macromedia has always promoted HTML for certain types of documents. The right tool for the right job. We actually attempted an All Flash All The Time model early on in Dylan65 and prototyped a support center entirely in Flash with tech notes displayed in Flash. There were usability problems with it that confirmed we were right to plan on an HTML / Flash hybrid site. > A complete restructuring would have been > enormously time intensive, and probably not economical. Yes, we changed /desdev to /devnet and that was a big deal. Several of us were pushing to change /software to /products to match other sites but that was considered too big a change. > I think MM is pushing the right direction with the new site, but it's > going > to get a lot of criticism (including mine) and have a lot of problems > because it didn't go the full monty. I assure you that attempting to show all the tech notes and press releases in Flash would have drawn far more criticism... :) > However, we don't know what went into > the back-end of the site, and I think that's important. You will - we are planning a series of articles about it. > I guarentee that they had a lot of problems with CFCs Well, we started developing with CFCs prior to the first alpha release so we did experience a lot of flux in that area. However, CFCs are at the core of our architecture and we are, generally, very happy with them. See my blog for just how much we rely on them: http://www.corfield.org/blog/archives/2003_03.html#000254 > Flash Remoting Yes, we've learned a lot about this too. Again, see my blog for just how central it is to our new site. Again, we'll write articles on the pros and cons. > the end result is going to be a set of kick-ass updaters for all > products > involved in their site redux here in a couple months. I probably shouldn't say it but there are fixes in Updater 3 that are a direct result of my team's experience with the products and which will improve everyone's experience with the products. I've seen the draft release notes for Updater 3 and I'm really stoked about the fixes and enhancements! Sean A Corfield -- Director, Architecture Web Technology Group -- Macromedia, Inc. tel: (415) 252-2287 -- cell: (415) 717-8473 aim/iChat: seancorfield -- http://www.macromedia.com An Architect's View -- http://www.macromedia.com/go/arch_blog Announcing Macromedia DevNet Subscriptions Maximize your power with our new premium software subscription Find out more: http://www.macromedia.com/go/devnetsubs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
