Sivakatirswami at wrote:
> If someone started debating the concept of using MC with "Why don't you just
> do that in Flash" i.e. pushing Flash as a primary development environment
> over MetaCard, what would be ten reasons you would give in response? I tried
> Flash once (before Flash 4.0 came out) and it felt like someone had "hog
> tied me" compared to the ease of working in XTalk and we decided not to
> bother learning it. It seemed to me to be a useful animation program, if you
> wanted to spend all that time and money to make people dizzy when they
> opened their web page (just joking, I'm sure it has mature uses), but beyond
> that too constrained an environment to build anything robust with any ease.
> But I would like some points from the sages on this list to take to the
> table. Thanks.
Flash 5 is the ideal environment for browser-based applications.
MetaCard is the ideal environment for cross-platform desktop applications.
Flash doesn't do traditional UI design.
MetaCard doesn't do browsers.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
_____________________________________________________________________
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com
Tel: 323-225-3717 ICQ#60248349 Fax: 323-225-0716
Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/
Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
