What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Jeffry Houser
Not that 'branding everything under one banner' is a bad idea, but.. MX seems like a random 'name' to choose for branding if it doesn't mean anything. At 01:42 PM 4/1/2002 +0100, you wrote: >It doesn't stand for anything :-) > >It is simply a rebranding of the whole MM familly under one bann

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2002-04-01 Thread Carlisle, Eric
nt: Monday, April 01, 2002 7:53 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: What is MX Not that 'branding everything under one banner' is a bad idea, but.. MX seems like a random 'name' to choose for branding if it doesn't mean anything. At 01:42 PM 4/1/2002 +0100, you wrote: >It doesn&#x

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2002-04-01 Thread Mark Leder
Here's another one. MX stands for "more xpensive." Thanks, Mark -Original Message- From: Carlisle, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 8:12 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: What is MX I heard that there were a few ways of explaining that. From wh

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2002-04-01 Thread Dave Carabetta
>-Original Message- >From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 7:53 AM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: What is MX > > > Not that 'branding everything under one banner' is a bad idea, but.. > MX seems like a random '

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2002-04-01 Thread Jim McAtee
TED]> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:35 AM Subject: Re: What is MX > In other words, it sounds cool!!! > > > > "Success is a journey, not a destination!!" > > > > Doug Brown > - Original Message - > From: "Dave Carabetta" <

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2002-04-01 Thread Jeffry Houser
Yeah, but aren't we supposed to be technical people? Shouldn't it also mean something ( practical ) ? Awww, well... maybe the 'sounding coolness' of it will sway the heads of some marketing people. -- Jeffry Houser | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Need a Web Developer? Contact me! AIM: Reboog7

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2002-04-01 Thread Douglas Brown
In other words, it sounds cool!!! "Success is a journey, not a destination!!" Doug Brown - Original Message - From: "Dave Carabetta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 6:15 AM Subject:

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2002-04-01 Thread Rick Walters
le today on News.com. Looks like it's going take some serious marketing to sell the concept. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-872136.html Jim - Original Message - From: "Douglas Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, A

Re: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Jeffry Houser
At 10:13 AM 4/1/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Wow that article was negative. Maybe we should just go back to using >smoke signals to communicate. Oh, I dunno. I think the article was in line with many things that I have thought. And they did seem to present both sides of the story. The issues ad

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2002-04-01 Thread BEN MORRIS
ng article today on News.com. Looks like it's going take some serious marketing to sell the concept. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-872136.html Jim - Original Message - From: "Douglas Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

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2002-04-01 Thread Nick McClure
ED] 04/01/02 12:39PM >>> >Interesting article today on News.com. Looks like it's going take >some >serious marketing to sell the concept. > >http://news.com.com/2100-1001-872136.html > >Jim > > > >- Original Message - >From: "Douglas Brown

Re: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Rick Walters
ginal Message - From: "Douglas Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:35 AM Subject: Re: What is MX > In other words, it sounds cool!!! > > > > "Success is a journey, not a destination!!"

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2002-04-01 Thread Brunt, Michael
uot;A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet." -Original Message- From: BEN MORRIS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:20 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: What is MX I agree that flash is

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2002-04-01 Thread VAN VLIET, SCOTT E (SBCSI)
: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:31 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: What is MX We'll see. One day it may be just as easy to flow text into Flash reports. We'll see. I'm sure someone at Macromedia has been scratching their chin trying to figure out how to get their hands on the busin

Re: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Paul Giesenhagen
t: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:29 PM Subject: Re: What is MX > In general I would agree with this, the reason being the mechanism for > displaying the content already existed. The scroll bars, the page > navigation, all part of HTML and the web browser. > > MX is supposed to have some

Re: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Jon Hall
rch engine thing, I believe that search engines will index the alt parameter of the object tag for the swf... jon - Original Message - From: "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:39 PM Subject: Re: W

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2002-04-01 Thread Greg Alton
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 1:17 PM Subject: Re: What is MX > At 10:13 AM 4/1/2002 -0800, you wrote: > >Wow that article was negative. Maybe we should just go back to using > >smoke signals to communicate. > &

Re: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Jeffry Houser
gt; > >Richard Walters, > > >Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >(800) 604-5227 x 3525 > > > > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/01/02 12:39PM >>> > > >Interesting article

Re: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Jeffry Houser
At 02:00 PM 4/1/2002 -0500, you wrote: >We don't need to change the search engines. We just need to fool them into >thinking that we have a static site with 100,000 pages. I'm sure we can >apply these techniques to Flash. That is a great approach to it. I wonder if there is a way to do a sea

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2002-04-01 Thread Matthew R. Small
I agree... Flash is just that - flash. It's best used when it has a function rather than just a way to pretty up a website. - Matt Small -Original Message- From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 1:52 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: What

Re: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Paul Giesenhagen
ot;Jeffry Houser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:51 PM Subject: Re: What is MX > Reality is that when I surf, I'm looking for text. > Flash sites still tend to aggravate me (that is an implementat

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2002-04-01 Thread Robert Everland
l 01, 2002 2:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: What is MX Don't get me wrong, I prefer simple graphics and text .. I am just comparing the "golden" days before browsers made things pretty like they are today ... people couldn't imagine the need for anything different than ascii t

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2002-04-01 Thread Pete Freitag
) CTO, CFDEV.COM ColdFusion Developer Resources http://www.cfdev.com/ -Original Message- From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 1:54 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: What is MX At 02:00 PM 4/1/2002 -0500, you wrote: >We don't need to change the search eng

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2002-04-01 Thread Tracy Bost
When I go to MM's site, I don't see flash when I'm searching for something, I don't see flash when I'm modifying my account,I don't see the forums being powered by flash & I don't see flash working when I make an online purchase. As a matter of fact, the only flash I see, is the menu flashy stuff

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2002-04-01 Thread Nick McClure
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Re: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Nick McClure
You are correct, but if you want all of content indexed, this won't work for you. >On the search engine thing, I believe that search engines will index the alt >parameter of the object tag for the swf... > >jon __ This list and

RE: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Nick McClure
I have noticed this on banner ads. There are some that make my computer lag while the browser is on the page. Makes me mad. At 02:17 PM 4/1/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Also another issue with Flash is bad bad coding. There is a flash website >for a local radio station here. http://www.wjrr.com/main

Re: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread John Dowdell
At 10:20 AM 4/1/2, BEN MORRIS wrote: > > http://news.com.com/2100-1001-872136.html > > I agree that flash is far superior to HTML for multimedia > rich content. But when it comes to posting documents and > information, HTML/XHTML/XML is far superior to flash. > Different tasks require different t

Re: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Dick Applebaum
I kinda' started this thread by asking what MX stood for (not particularly Flash NX). I have visited a lot of sites where Flash was used to excess and I cringe at these. OTH there are a good number of sites where Flash is used wisely, and improves the user experience (and hopefully, the ROI f

RE: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Mark Broner
EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 3:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: What is MX I kinda' started this thread by asking what MX stood for (not particularly Flash NX). I have visited a lot of sites where Flash was used to excess and I cringe at these. OTH there are a good number of s

RE: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Ian Lurie
It means they really want their stock price to go up... :) -Original Message- From: Mark Broner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:44 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: What is MX well I don't know if it actually means this but it is the first Macr. person I have

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2002-04-02 Thread Kola Oyedeji
IL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: 01 April 2002 20:09 > >To: CF-Talk > >Subject: RE: What is MX > > > > > >I agree... Flash is just that - flash. It's best used when it has a > >function rather than just a way to pretty up a website. > > > >- Matt Small

Re: XML (was What is MX)

2002-04-01 Thread BEN MORRIS
(I am breaking my own rule of not adding to discussions that go on this long, but here I go...) One point that has perhaps been missed in this discussion is that if the information you are starting with is encoded in a meaningful way (XML or a DB), then the pros & cons of flash and HTML become