On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 08:57 , Joe Eugene wrote: > Does Flash add any more USABILITY to existing critical applications...?
Yes. The HTML-based web experience is not exactly ideal... Look at the scenario of booking a flight, for example. See how many pages you have to click through trying to find a suitable flight? Enter the dates and perhaps some target times, click, wait, results come back that don't suit - change some values, click, wait, results come back that are better - select a specific flight, click, wait, make a seating choice, click, wait, click, enter passenger information etc, click, wait, realize you mistyped your address - click 'change' button, wait, correct your address, click, wait, enter credit card information, click, wait, verify order, click, wait, done. A well-designed Flash UI can break this down to a single page with pretty much instant feedback on flight times, availability, seating choices etc. The 'wait' parts of the experience are reduced to milliseconds by using direct Flash / ColdFusion calls that bring back only the data you need, instead of bringing back an entire page of HTML. Flash allows multiple panels to share the same screen real estate, sliding in and out as needed - allowing you to go back and forth in the process, making any changes you need without ever having to wait for a new page of HTML to come back from the server. A Flash UI can also cache data locally and maintain its state from invocation to invocation, again making a much better user experience than HTML can hope for. "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
