Well needless to say my point was not leaving DHTML and adopting Flash, and I'm
not starting yet another sterile argument here. I was just explaining what I've
seen.
Ark wrote:
> Good point. Flash makes some things easy not having to write any code, but
> you can't get all its power without writing a single line (I'm talking about
> Flash 5). At last, you end having a movie with only one or two frames in the
> timeline and a bunch of code in the actions panel. The guys of Macromedia
> have been intelligent and adopted JavaScript (here called ActionScript) as
> the flash programming language, to make easier for dhtml programmers to move
> to Flash. I don't know if it's time to move definitively from dhtml to
> flash, but I think we should see it as a valid alternative. What Flash
> offers is a more stable and reliable support, maybe we will program in the
> same way we are doing now with dhtml, but we won't have the troubles we have
> building crossbrowser pages (don't you spend the half of the time of a
> project just making pages work in both IE and Netscape browsers?). If the
> end user has the plugin installed you know that the movie will work
> (although at times its behaviour depends also of the browser version). Maybe
> Microsoft and Netscape are fighting in sterile battles while Macromedia is
> going to win the war... (btw, Macromedia and Allaire have joined, what will
> happen with the most wonderful html editor you can imagine, HomeSite?).
>
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> ~ Enviado el: viernes, 04 de mayo de 2001 12:27
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> ~ Asunto: [Dynapi-Dev] Meet the enemy
> ~
> ~
> ~ The Online Flash Film Festival is currently being held in Barcelona.
> ~ World wide recognized Flash gurus show their works, give some speaks and
> ~ share their thoughts about the future of web designing and where are
> ~ things going. I'm attending some of the events ( hey, company is paying
> ~ and I got a cool bag ).
> ~
> ~ Ironicaly, while DHTMLs are tryning to move from notepad to Wysywig and
> ~ timelined web building, flashers are going down to dirty and dangerous
> ~ coding practices. Joshua Davies ( www.praystation.com ) talked about
> ~ abandoning the idea of linear movies and building systems, closed
> ~ environments where the programmer generates several items which react to
> ~ what happens close to them, and then let them evolve and move by
> ~ themselves.
> ~
> ~ Of course flash is best suitable for movies, but when it comes to webs
> ~ and interfaces, cutting-edge flashers are moving towards where we are:
> ~ having objects that react to certain events and are placed in a given
> ~ space, which is the web space. Lots of code has been shown, and little
> ~ timelines.
> ~
> ~ I can't help smiling at these things. Just so ironic.
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