i agree, as i'm one of those people that can't install plugins at work, and i take that into account when developing...many times I've had to settle exporting to flash 5 so the users won't run into problems. efficiency and usability should be huge factors in using flash
we could go on all day, trying to change each other's opinions...just don't rule out flash because of people's poor uses or because MM is trying to push the package and show what they can do with their own technologies. -----Original Message----- From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:47 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Is Flash really THAT good? Friday, June 20, 2003, 1:32:25 PM, you wrote: TS> example: i work for a large company, car rides home are free after a certain hour since public transp is deemed unsafe...previously the dispatcher was doing this all by paper, i wrote a flash TS> app on a PocketPC for him, now he scans id cards and a barcode on the car into a flash form, gets about a hundred of these. submits them all, gets stored locally(no internet connection), synches TS> it up at night...done with sharedObjects in Flash and remoting. we looked at other ways to do this, and flash was the easiest and quickest way to get this going for him. Look at the developer exchange. It takes me longer than it used to to find what I want to in order to download it than it did before, even on Allaire's old overloaded servers. It wont even work at all for people who don't have permission to install plugins on their work computers. TS> so you can say flash doesn't make things more efficient...but you'd be wrong per example above, I can say it makes things (another relative term) less efficient...and be right as well. I happen to think MM.com's use of MX is pretty much state of the art as well, and it's not working more efficiently (from my pov) than it did before all the time and money were invested in it. It follows that the majority of other implementations will have similar problems. TS> -----Original Message----- TS> From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TS> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:26 PM TS> To: CF-Talk TS> Subject: Re: Is Flash really THAT good? TS> I disagree, I think it's our duty to fight off trends in technology TS> that are focused more on marketing than on getting stuff done more TS> efficiently (I don't think Flash necessarily fits in this category). TS> That's why computers were invented, and that's why I buy books on TS> Amazon instead of going down to the book store. TS> So, whether or not I end up a flash partisan after Royale comes TS> out...I feel the negatives and positives of any technology that TS> affects out industry should be argued about ad nauseum by us. TS> If we don't do it, no one else will, because no one else understands TS> the technology. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Host with the leader in ColdFusion hosting. Voted #1 ColdFusion host by CF Developers. Offering shared and dedicated hosting options. www.cfxhosting.com/default.cfm?redirect=10481 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
