> damn gary, your a hard man to please ;) I think this is probably the distinction I am making.
In going to a website - no matter what it is written in - I am looking to have needs met. Some needs are related to eye-candy, others are related to easy of use, others are related to how well information is delivered. While I cannot dispute that the Flash movie is well written, obviously functions as the creator intended, is consistent in its application of the concept, etc. - it fails on too many of the other needs I am wanting met. And eye-candy is down the bottom of the list when I am visiting a website to find out information. Here is another way I view it...... If I had been the product developer but not the designer/developer of the flash movie, I would be annoyed that it would take a potential user of my product so long to actually get to my product (I am assuming now that the flash movie itself is a completely separate creation from the tools it is trying to market). At no point during the presentation did the movie indicate that it was built entirely on the toolset it was marketting. I may have been more impressed then (assuming I wanted to write similar applications). But I will stop there before I upset too many other people. As a tool I think Flash is brilliant. But I am very strongly of the viewpoint that the web is about function - not about form - and I have not yet found a "rich experience" that has not gotten in the way of me getting the information that I want easily and quickly. We talk about web page loading statistics. How you should not make your users wait for unnecessary periods of time. Yet we then all go and develop rich applications (no matter it being in Flash or DHTML or any other client side scripting mechanism) that do just that and try to justify it under some new buzzword and claim the user is better off. The usability research still isn't stacking up on the side of "rich experience". Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 **************************************************************************** If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual's portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client's investments, financial circumstances and requirements. **************************************************************************** --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
