At 14:51 -0400 06/12/2002, Colin Holgate wrote:
>>>the flash remoting, compatability with nokia phones and for palm pilots.
>>
>>Ah. Plugins for portables -- I'd suspect not, strictly because of
>>package size and bandwidth issues. There was some noise made about
>>the "possibility" of a Shockwave for Palm back in 1999 or so and I
>>doubted it then as well. Camel through the needle's eye and all
>>that.
>
>I think you've jumped to the wrong conclusion. If Director has a
>Flash MX Xtra, and there's any point to it (in other words, it does
>Flash MX features), then it ought to be possible to do the Flash
>remoting thing inside Director. The phone end of the deal might well
>be Flash, but the computer end could be either Flash on its own, or
>inside Director.
Ah, now that's a possibility -- but consider how big a shockfile
gets; if I understand what you're suggesting you'd be passing
Shockwave data through a Flash plugin. Would you want some
pud-yanking geek trying to send that to your 'kia?
I smell debacle here, on par with the folks who use all 1000 Score
channels and then get surprised when their files bog on 75 MHz Pentia
with 32 Mb RAM.
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