I feel that flash is a good TOOL to extend the functionality or design of an application. When used as a tool, flash is very powerful and has it's place. It is when it is abused that it becomes combersome. I equate it to using a hammer to drive screws; when you use the right tool, you'll get the desired results.
-----Original Message----- From: Jon Block [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 11:59 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Is Flash really THAT good? I've always equated Flash movies with special effects in movies. The best special effects in movies are the ones you don't even know are there. Sometimes I'm on a site and I realize wow how'd they do that ... and then a right click on a certain area of the screen reveals its a Flash movie. Thats where I think Flash is best used. Something else that I wanted to mention... if you load a JPG in your browser, would you consider it to be a website? Probably not. If you load a quicktime movie in your browser, is that a web site? I would say "no". Same is true for a Java applet. By the same logic, I think that when a flash movie is loaded into a web browser and its the only thing on the page, its really not a "web site" but instead a Flash movie running in your browser. When I hear that someone is "doing a website in Flash", that never sits well with me. If you are building an application that doesn't use HTML, doesn't reload, can't be indexed by Google, doesn't even need to run in a web browser in the first place, is it really a web site or is it something else? If we were to all use Flash to build our internet applications, there would be no practical use for the web browser in the first place and suddenly the web is a propritary place. So the question I pose is this: If someone were to ask you to build them a website and your final product is a URL to a web page that runs a full page Flash movie, did you build them what they asked for? Did you build a website? Thoughts? -Jon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
