Interesting, I thought I had first been introduced to it via the Papervision 3D site - regardless, it's very impressive.
Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media · GCIB & Staff Support L&LD Interested in Flash Platform technologies? Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Interested in innovative ideas in Learning? Check out the Innovative Learning Blog and subscribe. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olivier Besson Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 5:45 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash hi, certainly OOT, but for the sake of exactness, Ecodazoo was not made with papervision. Roxik (http://roxik.com/) used a custom 3d engine (Sharikura): http://temp.roxik.com/ Olivier Merrill, Jason a écrit : > Sure - I mean again, it just comes down to what KIND of sites you are > comparing - a cool site RIA could be equally cool as a cool 3D Flash site > like EcoDaZoo (which was done with Papervision3d by the way, and could have > been done in Flex - if there was a need for the Flex framework) - but > comparing one site with another for "coolness" is really subjective, it's > like comparing apples and oranges. If a site dynamically allows product > selection interactions with effects was seen as "cool" - and a site like > EcoDaZoo was done with Flash + Papervision and is thought of as "cool", well, > which one is "cooler"? You can't do the comparision because they are > completely different types of sites. > > Yes, for sites that have a lot of UI "zing" - animations and effects, and > really wild transitions and layouts, well, Flex would not be the best choice. > That's why you have to decide which tool is best for what kind of project > you have. > > > Jason Merrill > Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media · GCIB & Staff > Support L&LD > > Interested in Flash Platform technologies? Join the Bank of America Flash > Platform Developer Community > Interested in innovative ideas in Learning? Check out the Innovative > Learning Blog and subscribe. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cedric Muller > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:07 AM > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash > > You are right. I may have been mislead here, but I still think that a > site like EcoDaZoo or sites done by agencies like Gringo, or > Firstborn are Flash, not Flex. I am getting specific here, which is > irrelevant regarding this thread. > > Cedric > > >>>> With both you can be efficient. As a proof, all the best Flash sites >>>> >> are Flash, not Flex. >> >> How do you know? I have seen some amazing Flash sites I thought >> were build in the Flash IDE, and I found out later they were Flex >> apps, with some really great skinning going on. I have also seen >> some flex-like sites that were cool that I discovered were Flash >> IDE made sites. But in a lot of cases, there is no real way to >> tell what the development environment was - maybe if you pulled >> apart the .swf you could tell, but other than that, it's difficult. >> >> >> Jason Merrill >> Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media · GCIB & >> Staff Support L&LD >> >> Interested in Flash Platform technologies? Join the Bank of >> America Flash Platform Developer Community >> Interested in innovative ideas in Learning? Check out the >> Innovative Learning Blog and subscribe. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > -- Olivier Besson (gludion) - (33 1) 44 64 78 99 http://wwww.gludion.com http://blog.gludion.com _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
