Guns don't kill people, people kill people, right?
The hammer/carpenter brush/painter car/driver analog is endlessly
debatable. I belong to a school of thought that believes putting a gun
in the hand of a person makes him a far more viable killer than one
without the gun. I think people have a
Similarly, when GUI's came out, the command line people said the old
way was better.
Are you trying to tell me it isn't? ;-)
I guess my bottom line is that more powerful tools for the designer is
never a bad thing. At the end of the day bad designers will be
punished, and good designers wil
The most important metric in measuring a user interface is money.
Page based systems where every action loads a new page costs money.
This is because every new page you require someone to load you loose
approximately 50% of your audience. For most people, lots of page
loads are painful.
Now, you
Hi Andreas,
Yes I follow your gist. But what you are arguing for is simple design and
ering on the side of caution, nothing more, nothing that I would dissagree
with either, but having little relation to the Ajax vs Flash choice. Sure
Flash gives you plenty of rope to hang yourself with, but it al
You gotta understand my point of view here: I'm doing "customer support"
for my parents almost every week to get them around interface issues. I
know we're all very hip and young people here, but i sympathize very
much with the inexperienced end user. JS here and whatnot there, what
we're doing
Ajax mimics better web pages since it uses same technology (HTML) indeed,
it's just about the only way it can go (unless you go to certain lengths to
reinvent the GUI with CSS tricks and images).
Flash doesn't need to mimic web pages since it can simply do better.
It mimics full-blown desktop a
Cortlandt Winters wrote:
Andreas said
This is just my relatively uninformed opinion however, i'd love to hear
counterargumentation when it comes to the usability issue.
Hi Andreas,
I enjoyed your rant's but in the end they are reactionary nonsense.
Usability doesn't depend on the techno
> Andreas said
> This is just my relatively uninformed opinion however, i'd love to hear
> counterargumentation when it comes to the usability issue.
Hi Andreas,
I enjoyed your rant's but in the end they are reactionary nonsense.
Usability doesn't depend on the technology. It depends on design.
ex. (Yes, I know, it is a blurry line between a
"site" and an "application" but I am trying to be helpful based on
limited info and the most basic differentiation between the products.)
Regards,
David Macromedia
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Hi,
>
> With regards the website I am about to develop, it will
> require user registration, progress monitoring and be
> comprised primarily of interactive learning activities. Does
> this sound like something Flex would be better suited for
> than just Flash itself?
>
A) Make sure you k
Mendels
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?
Hi,
Andreas's info is dated...there is a lot of new news this week that changes
much of what he said.
Flex is a product line from Macromedia for building applications that run in
the
limited info and the most basic differentiation
between the products.)
Regards,
David
Macromedia
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> http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/brz_overview/
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> Better description than my jaded cynical self could provide. Keep your
> bs filter in the "on" position
] What is Flex?
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/brz_overview/
Better description than my jaded cynical self could provide. Keep your
bs filter in the "on" position though.
- Andreas
Andreas Rønning wrote:
> Paul Steven wrote:
>
>> Been using Flash
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/brz_overview/
Better description than my jaded cynical self could provide. Keep your
bs filter in the "on" position though.
- Andreas
Andreas Rønning wrote:
Paul Steven wrote:
Been using Flash now for many years to create online games, C
Paul Steven wrote:
Been using Flash now for many years to create online games, CDROMs and
websites. I have always used the Flash program itself to create all my
content because that was the only option I had available to me (with the
exception of creating swfs in illustrator and the adobe flash
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