On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Karl DeSaulniers<[email protected]
wrote:
@Ktu
I see what your saying.. I agree.
The technology is out there for HTML to get a complete face-lift if you
will.
If not a whole new write-up. And from this response, I understand your
black box now.
Sry if any disconnect. I guess in my pursuit to make what was available
to
me work
I didn't worry about if that structure would or could change.
i love control. i like being in control so this is why i have an issue with
black boxes. i still believe that black boxes are inhibitors to progress
I don't see why it couldn't be done, and to add to that, browsers could
use a rewrite as well. 0.รต
..but then I guess some would argue that the<canvas> tag is what your
talking about.
But that too is a black box IMO and I am sure yours as well. Correct me if
I am wrong.
you are not wrong. in my opinion the canvas tag is another black box that
allows for a different (and in some ways lower level) functionality. its
nice that this black box is very abstract so you can accomplish more within
it. this abstract layer is similar to flash. i mean, grant skinner created
a framework that emulates the flash display architecture when using the
canvas tag. this tag both helps and hurts my case.
Can you give an example of what your talking about.. or
the idea behind a black-less box?? :)
not sure if i understand your question now, but it has sparked a thought
that seems to connect things together for me, and might give insight as to
why i think about this.
black boxes are useful. they can really make things easier sometimes. as it
seams, we keep adding more and more black boxes to boxes to make things
easier. this is fine and good until we start trying to use the black boxes
the way they were not intended. it would be nicer if i could change the way
that box worked, but i cannot.
take for example this correlation about black boxes.
(excuse my poor html knowledge)
I want a scrollable block of content in my html page that only takes up
part of the screen.
i create a<div> give it size and tell it overflow = hidden (?) and that it
should use a scrollbar (somehow?)
if i did that in flash
create a sprite
set scrollRect and give content
either use scrollbar components from some framework or write my own
if i did that in C++
i could, go on forever making all the things!
or utilize a bunch of libraries to make it almost as simple (relatively
please) as the html.
the more black boxes we have the less control we have. in my own work, i
create white boxes (black boxes i have source code to, do they have a
proper name?). i have created the building blocks to serve the common
tasks. i wonder at people who spend any time working on 'browser
compatibility'. the example above has shown me that i like boxes, but not
black ones, and if there is anything i can do, it will never be black. my
example above shows how boxes are helpful, but i think i really do not like
the closed aspect of it.
my head now reeling with new off topic thoughts i will stop. what started
as an emotional response to my own past experiences (first thread) has
turned into yet another dive into the confused search for new information.
p.s. i prefer flash because i have more control than html, i got stuck with
flash because it is the easiest way to make something pretty.
Sounds like a good thread if nothing else..
Best,
Karl
PS: I am still +1 on a flash-based browser with DOM to FllashObj
converters built in.
Sounds like a great C++ project.
:))
** I may be a dreamer, but I'm not the only one...
** J.L.
On Jan 13, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Ktu wrote:
if i am not mistaken, jQuery is a framework that makes working with html
tags easier. but you are still stuck with using those tags.
its not a matter of 'can you do it with this language', its a matter of
'what control do i have'. i have always felt that as a developer, you
have
less control over how html works, than how flash works. there are
greater
and deeper black boxes in html.
i just don't see why people like working in html at all. they took a
markup
language, designed to be static and Frankenstein-ed it with javascript
and
css to compensate where they should have attempted to create something
new.
i don't think the future is bleak at all either. in fact, i think that
flash might end up being used more and more for tools, education, and
visualization. but that's what i am using it for and i am a bit out of
touch with what everyone else is doing.
are there ways that i could effectively create my own 'tag' with its own
attributes and events and use that in lieu of a natvie html tag?
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Karl DeSaulniers<[email protected]
wrote:
One word.. jQuery.
In my option it is the next best thing to flash.
I have been able to recreate most, if not all of my flash pieces with
it.
<body> is your canvas. (NOT a reference to HTML5 BTW, think artist
canvas
=)
<DIV> is your friend. Call it your MovieClip.
<p> is a helper when layout has text.
if your daring enough to learn the proper way to use it,
<table>,<tr> and the good ol<td> can make a sound foundation.
(Not the going consensus though, I just know how to use them properly.
most people like to use a table-less design and thats just<DIV>s
galore
with CSS.)
jQuery can create any element you want on the fly (Not sure about the
HTML
tag though,
never tried. I use php to create any new HTML) and manipulate it (in
some
cases)
better than flash and an MC. jQuery has not been a memory hoooooogggg
like
flash was for me
and like I said, I have recreated most of what I did with flash.
Just a very small run-down an there is A LOT more I have not touched on
that you can utilize.
The future is not so bleak, IMO.
I just assume let Adobe burry Flash if this is the effort they would
put
towards it.
I learned Flash much like you. I hated the limitations of HTML.
Saw flash and asked, why can't HTML do this stuff??
Well now it can, or I should say, it kind-of always could,
I just didn't know Javascript and CSS...
HTH,
Best,
Karl
PS: Flash still is my love, but she's left me to figure out who she
is. I
wait with baited breath...
On Jan 13, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Ktu wrote:
*preamble:*
a recent thread got me thinking about my educational experience, and
why i
love flash so much. i started html, hated it, then tried flash, all in
high
school. after high school i eventually went to a college for two
semesters
and learned some c++ and java (java was easier, but understanding the
power
of c++ was cool).
i realized i didn't like html because you couldn't do anything with
it.
it
was just presentation. i wanted to do logic. flash, allowed me to do
logic.
when i learned html javascript was brand new and my high school
teacher
knew nothing of it (barely knew anything of anything). so what flash
allowed me was a place to immediately make things happen (started just
when
as2 came out).
*problem:*
even after you include css, dynamic css, and javascript to html you
still
have this one problem which is the whole reason i hate html. the
presentation layer is black boxed. i think there are two elements to
that
which need addressing; one being the browser wars, the other being the
(imho) new powers of javascript and the html/css standards.
each tag we use in html is a black box. i can't change the way it
behaves.
worse yet, each browser (and os) represent things differently. right
off
the bat its hard to make a single experience. but these black boxes
make
innovation harder.
ok, so with javascript and such you could build your own 'scroll bar'
and
'scrolling content', but you are still confined within the black boxes
you
are given, and merely using them in a way they weren't initially
designed
for.
how is it that anyone enjoys working in an environment where their ui
is
so
locked down? (or is it?)
*haters:*
to make comment on flash's ui black box:
yes, their display architecture is a black box and we must conform to
that.
i get that, but the black box in flash ui is more of a foundation to a
house that we can't touch. where as i see html as being pre built
rooms
that we can stitch together.
*what's up:*
i have not touched html in years; i am biased; i am open minded, am i
missing something about html? have they added 'lower level' tags that
act
more like a foundation?
can javascript 'create' new html tags?
with the way things are going, i think the global web language will
eventually need to have fewer black boxes in the ui (if that's not the
case
today)
...,?
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