This intrigues me a bit... how can you get the CF server piece to interact
with that flash form without submitting it? You'd still have to perform an
HTTP post in order to get the filled in data to the CF server, which would
in fact force a new page to load or a refresh of the current page. Unless
you were using Generator, right?
At 12:13 AM 1/17/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Ahhhhh, but....
>
>You can use Flash without all the fancy things.
>
>You can create a simple page with a simple form that:
>
> looks exactly the same regardless of the browser, fonts, styles, etc.
>
> has antialiased characters in both the labels and in the fields,
> themselves
>
> improves the user interface
>
> outperforms a standard form (less bandwidth, faster response)
>
>The latter is very important for a "nice but fast presentation of useful
>data".
>
>Here's a simple example of what I mean:
>
>With CF you display a simple blank form to retrieve/edit an employee record:
>
>
>
> Employee_ID _____________________ [Submit]
>
> Last_Name _____________________
>
> First_Name _____________________
>
> Phone _____________________
>
> .
> .
> .
>
>Now you enter an employee ID and hit submit.
>
>what normally happens is this:
>
> 1) the form fields are submitted to your CF program in Name/Value Pairs
> (e.g. Employee_ID=12345)
>
> 2) Your CF program gets the info from the form and does a query and
> retrieves the data.
>
> 3) Your CF program formats am entirely new copy of the form with the data
> fields filled in
>
> 4) You send this back to the browser
>
> 5) The browser's screen goes blank
>
> 6) The entire form and contents are redrawn
>
>Now, let's do the same thing with Flash.
>
>The blank form looks the same, except it is defined in flash and is
>probably smaller than the equivalent html form.
>
>When you enter an ID and submit, steps 1 and 2 are exactly the same
>
>But here is where things get a little different:
>
> The Flash file which submitted the data is looking for a response in the
> format of Name/Value pairs
>
> 3) Your program only formats the Name/Value pairs, not the entire form
>
> 4) The Name/Value pairs (only) are sent back to the browser Flash plugin
>
> 5) the screen does *not* go blank
>
> 6) The Values in the Name/Value pairs replace the contents of the form
> fields (the entire form is *not* redrawn)
>
>The reduction in bandwidth is significant.
>
>Response time is greatly improved.
>
>The visitor doesn't stare at a blank or partially redrawn screen
>
>Dick
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>
>At 8:16 PM -0800 1/16/01, Allan Pichler wrote:
> >Flash is all good .... for fancy presentations. But that's not where the
> >majority of inet use is. It's still about making nice but fast presentation
> >of useful data.
>
>
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