I wouldn't expect many of the Flash SOTD's to not use animation to get recognized as "cool." But even Pet Market's use of animation is more functional than eye candy. They move the images into different areas of the screen to make room for new info, not so much to make the app attractive. If they didn't move them, the app couldn't do its job.
And one of the main apps that is used to promote Flash as a "tool" instead of "cool" has no animation at all... The Broadmoor.com Online Reservation System. No amination at all, but a great piece of programming. Instead of 5 or more drill-down pages everything from start to finish on one page...brilliant! That's what I'm talking about...it's not so cool to look at but it is extremely cool to use! Rick -----Original Message----- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (REC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 11:25 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash for data views : WAS Ben's J2EE Book, now new course t o be offered by MACR Oh and to add...you have a look at all the examples and SOTD etc.. and you see how many are cool, and have aninamation etc.... (I woudl say 100%) this is where the npower lies, but not everyone has this power.. funky and cool sells apps, there is nothing wrong with that, but on a whole; its beyond the reach of even the advanced CF'er with jackshit Flash skills (AS/Anim etc..) maybe I will take a trip to Degobah and see what I can learn...... -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 September 2002 16:19 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash for data views : WAS Ben's J2EE Book, now new course t o be offered by MACR Neil, do you see any advantage to "one-page" data presentation and maintenance interfaces as opposed to multiple-page interfaces? Rick -----Original Message----- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (REC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:57 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash for data views : WAS Ben's J2EE Book, now new course t o be offered by MACR so you are using an animation tool and doing no an animation? I may just be a tad blinkered, but its like using IE to browser text files and not HTML.... doesnt make sense... -----Original Message----- From: Mike Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 September 2002 15:35 To: CF-Talk Subject: Flash for data views : WAS Ben's J2EE Book, now new course to be offered by MACR > -----Original Message----- > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (REC) > I like Flash, dont get me wrong, but if all you are doing it > linking to a DB > for a static form or grid etc, then you may as well use HTML > and no I am not > anti Flash Remoting - far from it, I just dont see the > business benefit > (development time = cost) of using say Flash for things which could be > developed in normal HTML. If all you are doing is presenting data to the user with no interaction, then there is not much advantage to using Flash. However, if the users interacts with that data in any way, then there are advantages. Namely, the fact that the entire page will not need to be refreshed to update the data view (or to submit data, etc). btw, that workflow requires no animation. I have been working with Flash for about 4 years now, and I dont think i have done any animation for about 2 years. All of my Flash applications consists of one Frame which a bunch of components, and data going back and forth from Flash and the server. > What I am driving at is this : there is no real 'Spectrum of > Participants' > (sorry Ray) of how to get a movie up and running. For what its worth, here is my workflow. 1. create functionality of movie using ActionScript and components. 2. send it to a designer to make it look pretty. btw, as far as time and costs, in a lot of cases i think the developing in Flash is easier / faster than in HTML since I don't have to write a bunch of code that maintains client state across page views. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.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
