RE: [Flashcoders] Acronym for Actionscript/Flash/Flex

2006-11-28 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
My suggestions: ABA - Annoying Banner Ads PTM - Punch The Monkey SIB - Skip Intro Button FCA - Funny Cartoon Animation SECI - Search Engines Can't Index TTUG - Tell Target Underscore Global ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

Re: [Flashcoders] Acronym for Actionscript/Flash/Flex

2006-11-28 Thread chris daubney
My feeling is that the Flash IDE will gradually forsake its name in favour of a the more generic use of the term (i'm thinking 'Hoover', 'hoover' here) so i'm happy to stick with Flash, and make a worthy point that the project is built with Actionscript as that tends to be where the majority

Re: [Flashcoders] Acronym for Actionscript/Flash/Flex

2006-11-27 Thread chris daubney
Flash is so much in the mindset of clients developers alike that as a core set of technologies it's difficult to imagine it being called anything else. But it did occur to me while I was writing and having to use Flash Flex within the same argument along with Actionscript, that it becomes

Re: [Flashcoders] Acronym for Actionscript/Flash/Flex

2006-11-27 Thread John Dowdell
chris daubney wrote: - is it a Flash project? - is it an Actionscript project? - is it a Flex project? - what do we say when the Flash/Flex IDE are out of the picture but still work with Actionscript using other tools? I like using verbs... delivered as SWF, created with Adobe Flex Builder,

[Flashcoders] Acronym for Actionscript/Flash/Flex

2006-11-26 Thread chris daubney
In the same way that AJAX stands for Javascript/XML, can anyone come up with or has heard an appealing acronym for Actionscript/Flex/Flash? Why? Perhaps in small part due to their heritage, the Actionscript/Flex/Flash core set of technologies are often referred to as Flash (as is the Flash

RE: [Flashcoders] Acronym for Actionscript/Flash/Flex

2006-11-26 Thread Dave Watts
Maybe Flash or FLASH is enough. It should be, since all of it is delivered exclusively through the Flash player. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC,

Re: [Flashcoders] Acronym for Actionscript/Flash/Flex

2006-11-26 Thread Kent Humphrey
chris daubney wrote: In the same way that AJAX stands for Javascript/XML, can anyone come up with or has heard an appealing acronym for Actionscript/Flex/Flash? As long as it doesn't turn into FAF... Why? Perhaps in small part due to their heritage, the Actionscript/Flex/Flash core set of

Re: [Flashcoders] Acronym for Actionscript/Flash/Flex

2006-11-26 Thread Mark Winterhalder
It is all delivered with the Flash plugin, so I would stick with Flash. Although Adobe might prefer it is called the Flash Platform or some-such : Personally, I prefer FlashPlayer or FlashPlayer Plugin. Flash Platform would be OK, too, but Flash alone is too confusing because it could refer to