Greg,
you might find my reply a bit rude, but I have to say that I've been involved in programming since 1978 and in man-machine interfaces design & other ergonomics since the early 80's, that I came across that kind of discussion many times and that along the years I found it rather pointless... In the early days of HC, it was also described as a tool allowing non-programmers to build sophisticated killer apps... I'm sorry to say that such a tool doesn't exist, and probably NEVER will... Any software tool (especially multimedia authoring tools) that doesn't require programming skills will always offer only a limited set of features. This set might become larger and larger as computers become faster and OS more sophisticated, but nevertheless it will never approach 10% of what you can achieve by struggling with lines of code... I usually like to compare it with buying furniture kits at Ikea versus getting carpenter skills in order to carve your own furniture from scratch... It takes somewhat longer, but the result is much more rewarding... It's actually a software vendors trick to make you think that their software will replace programing skills... they've already used that trick in the late 80's with desktop publishing when they claimed that buying PageMaker or XPress would allow you to produce professional magazines... And what happened ? The publishing market was invaded by hundreds of crappy newsletters and magazines (same situation in the late 90's with websites). The only publications that were worth considering were those designed by ppl with real design skills... Last but not least, the set of features offered by a software tool might give you the illusion to be more productive, but very soon you'll realize that a lot of ppl use those same features, and in the end, all apps made with that tool will look quite the same... JB _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
