On Aug 8, 2004, at 11:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Flash is a plug-in turned authoring environment.its roots in SmartDraw and Freehand. But then thats some messy politics
-- Nope, I was one of the testers for Pre-flash and flash. Flash actually has
between Aldus/Altsys some 15yrs ago. Actionscript was response to Hypertalk which
Altsys hated. I tried very hard to get Hypertalk (via superacard) into Altsys
products but failed, sorry. Sadly, Actionscript has more books written about it
than Hypertalk ever will have.
Wha??
It does not.
It roots in a product called FutureSplash Animator, which was written by a guy lived about 3 blocks from me in Toronto Canada. I used the betas of the original FutureSplash and used to call the dude at his house to provide feedback. It was a plug-in to allow vector graphics animation in web browsers. It had minimal scripting, but the drawing tools haven't changed much since Macromedia bought it from him.
Smartdraw and Freehand had absolutely nothing to do with Flash's "roots." Altsys? Hypercard? What?? You have experienced some entirely different history than the one in this reality.
-- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net
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