On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Meinte van't Kruis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see why people make such a distinction between designer and > programmer, > I think, espessially in the flash environment, this distinction is very > vague and you'll see > alot of designers doing programmer work and vice versa.
Thats true, mostly, but with the arrival of AS3 that has changed somewhat. As a creative-turned-developer, I'm quite comfortable with AS3 and for the most part havent looked back or missed AS2 at all (except when I have to relearn how to do something for the first time on deadline ;) ). But I think part of the problem is the increasingly schizophrenic nature of Flash's "identity" as an application. Even with the advent of AS3, its still unclear what defines a Flash "designer" or Flash "developer", especially to people coming to it fresh who may be misled by bad teachers or "learn flash in 10 minutes! make a bouncing bunny!" articles in magazines which still teach it as a Timeline application. Even the Flash documentation still focuses heavily on the Timeline, tweening etc in the early chapters, even though thats practically deprecated at this point. And Flash still has friggin SCENES despite those being about as looked down upon as cheese on fish for like 3 years now. I still have people tell me all the time that they "know flash", and when they show me their work its a timeline-based animation. Which is totally fine of course, but the problem is that they *dont even know* that what they're showing me has very little to do with what Flash currently has become. They may not even realize that those amazing Flash sites they see online dont have the slightest connection to their cute little timeline work, despite their both being built "in flash", and when I explain that, there is genuine confusion. After all, they bought Flash CS3, cracked the owners manual, and looky here, the whole first section is all about timelines, tweens, keyframes etc, and Actionscript comes later. Which is not to blame anyone. But it seems like Flash may need to become two apps in the long run. Or rather, EXPLICITLY become two apps, since at this point it already basically is. .m _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
