2 Camps for Flash Was: Just one "plug" for Flash
Bradley Miller
bradmiller at dslonramp.com
Thu Mar 20 01:03:05 CST 2003
At 03:44 PM 3/19/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>There are two camps that everyone falls into with regard to Flash and some
>people fall into both depending on why they are on the Internet.
>
>
>There is the "Looking for entertainment so Flash is OK" camp.
>
>And then, there's the "Looking for content and useability so Flash is BAD"
>camp.
And there would be the "I don't know what I'm talking about and I'm
spouting useless drivel I found in a book or online" camp. *Sigh* Flash
allows you to do graphics, yes -- the career site I'm working on isn't
about graphics. It's about the user interface . . . which is stuff like
"Joe Smuck trying to fill out a form and forgetting important
information." Or like Joe Smuck not liking to see all his info sorted one
way and being able to click and re-order the data right on the spot --
never making a call back to the server for IT to restructure the
HTML. It's Joe Smuck going on a Linux/Mac/etc... and being able to use the
site without a javascript error popping up.
Lumping all Flash work into "it's just eye candy and other crap" totally
misses the power of the product and what it can do. You'll remember, I
mentioned that in Actionscript, you have a very powerful programming
language. You can do remoting services to talk to ColdFusion, .NET, Java
(and through some home brew projects even PHP). I can guarantee you that
there isn't any "dancing bears" in my Flash based career site . . .
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