<cfinclude template="kaczynski_joke.cfm"> too tired to think of it myself i think as developers we should accept trends in technology, not fight them off. this is why developers read other developers' blogs, to keep current.
as for the site you sent, sure it's nice and somewhat soothing and no i wouldn't make it into a flash movie as it doesn't do anything. i'm not defending flash as an animation tool, but as a tool that can do much much more. -----Original Message----- From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 12:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Is Flash really THAT good? I did...I didn't go Windows, X or otherwise, until Win95b (Memphis). Besides, I think stuff like http://www.csszengarden.com/ is incredible and quite "fancy" enough for any site, application or content oriented. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, June 20, 2003, 12:07:08 PM, you wrote: TS> "I see no reason for us to sell it out for fancier user interfaces." TS> Did you say that when Mosaic came along, why didn't you stick with Lynx? TS> -----Original Message----- TS> From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TS> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 11:50 AM TS> To: CF-Talk TS> Subject: Re: Is Flash really THAT good? TS> Friday, June 20, 2003, 11:30:41 AM, you wrote: >>>The subject was UI though. CD>> I thought the topic was "Is flash really that good" and "Flash is evil", not flash doesn't look good. TS> You are getting semantic. I'll spell it out though TS> 1. The subject of the original post was what you say. TS> 2. One of the reasons given for supporting the fact that, yes, Flash TS> really is that good, what that you could do stuff in Flash that was TS> practically impossible in DHTML. (This is true, but practically is TS> a relative term). The poster chose the word "you" instead of "I" TS> meaning that he felt that his statements were more than an opinion, TS> but fact. I took the opportunity to inject some truth. TS> 3. I chose to take out of context the UI bit, and concentrate on that. TS> (my fault) should have addressed the cross-platform issue as well. TS> The subject of my sentence however, was the UI layer, which is TS> Flash. TS> The root issue is that I don't believe that the future of the web TS> should be defined by one company, whether I like that companies TS> products or not. I've been floating around the internet since before TS> the web existed, and it's been coming along nicely. I see no reason TS> for us to sell it out for fancier user interfaces. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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
