RE: ---------- >From: "Carlos Lorenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: <lingo-l> shockwave x flash >Date: Tue, May 14, 2002, 1:38 PM
>I´m planning to write my own website. >Forgive me about this question for it sounds off topic but i´d like to hear >from you that work as web developers why so many sites in flash and so few >written with director since director seems to be more a complet product. >Pls answer in private to ----------- I'm responding in public too. Flash has had a really, REALLY pervasive treatment in the press. Article placement and outright advertising for Flash overshoots that for Director many times over. And the learning curve for Director as opposed to Flash 'has' been relaively steep, even though the last 2 versions of Flash are getting fairly deep. (hey, I wrote a poem!). Director just plain COSTS MORE. Developing cross-platform projects requires purchasing both platform versions. By comparison, Flash is almost an "impulse purchase" and can make both Mac and Windows projectors from one platform version of the application. Not many people seem to realize that Flash and Director work pretty well together. They still seem stuck in the mindset that Director deals mainly with big bitmaps and Flash is compact "webbish" vectors. Some people imagine Director as merely a primitive version of the kind of thing they imagine Flash to be now. Notice I use the term "imagine". Then again, lots of people have that famous poster of Einstein where he says how important imagination can be as opposed to knowledge, so many people might just stick with the what they imagine and never take up Director. And once they realize what Dirctor CAN do, when they get to the store, they are staring right at the PRICE issue again, doubled by the prospect of buying it TWICE. Steve Bennett www.ifmp.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
