Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-11-03 Thread Robert r. Sanders
The two sites you mention are public sites; if they drive 10% of their potential audience away, but receive 20% more benefit (e.g. retaining the most loyal viewers, lowing bandwidth costs with newer codec, etc...) by doing so then it makes sense. For intra-net type or b2b type sites the

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-11-02 Thread John Dowdell
Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote: You can still make banner ads and cartoons with Flash 4. That's what Flash is used for right? So I've read ;-) (For the main thread, people usually decide what features their application might need, and then balance that against the trends in capability

RE: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-11-02 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
(For the main thread, people usually decide what features their application might need, and then balance that against the trends in capability among their own audience.) MySpace requires Flash 9 Player, You Tube requires Flash 8 (last I checked). They seem to have no problems getting people

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-11-01 Thread Andy Herrman
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content I'm working on a large commercial site that uses FP7 based content. What are some of the arguments and/or approaches that Flash developers have and are using to push the transition to FP8 content? The bottom line

RE: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-11-01 Thread Andrew Kirkpatrick
What about accessability/use-ability/SEO-friendly aspects? We just released skins for Flash 8 that support captioning and that are accessible to disabled users. I've got them on our accessibility blog for now, but will move them to the Flash exchange soon. http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility

RE: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-11-01 Thread Perdue, Blake
PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content I'm working on a large commercial site that uses FP7 based content. What are some of the arguments and/or approaches that Flash developers have and are using to push the transition to FP8 content

RE: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-11-01 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
You can still make banner ads and cartoons with Flash 4. That's what Flash is used for right? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-11-01 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
You can still make banner ads and cartoons with Flash 4. That's what Flash is used for right? WINK! ;) *SARCASM* J/K ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

[Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-10-31 Thread bitstreams
I'm working on a large commercial site that uses FP7 based content. What are some of the arguments and/or approaches that Flash developers have and are using to push the transition to FP8 content? The bottom line is really about providing the best user experience possible Jim bachalo

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-10-31 Thread Geoff Stearns
I just use: object, embed { align: justify; } and that usually does the trick!* * it's a joke. ha ha. On Oct 31, 2006, at 3:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on a large commercial site that uses FP7 based content. What are some of the arguments and/or

RE: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-10-31 Thread Merrill, Jason
] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:44 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content I'm working on a large commercial site that uses FP7 based content. What are some of the arguments and/or approaches that Flash

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-10-31 Thread Micky Hulse
Merrill, Jason wrote: Video capabilities can be a big seller - also the fact most people have it now is another. The much enhanced security of the 8 player could be your Ace of Spades though. Might be hard to convince them that the blur, dropshadow, glow etc. effects you can do dynamically

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-10-31 Thread Geoff Stearns
not sure about accessibility changes.. but SEO changes are kinda pointless in most cases.. i wrote an article on flash SEO a while back that might interest you (and others on the list): http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/03/13/modern-approach-flash-seo/ On Oct 31, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Micky

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-10-31 Thread Seb L
We've just sold two projects on FP8, the first because of it bitmap rendering capabilities, and the fact that we could use bitmap fills to stretch bitmap textures on 3D surfaces. Recently we've been using cacheAsBitmap, and also custom bitmap caching methods to massively increase the speed of