Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-08 Thread Kwang Suh
Joe, don't mean to pick on ya. But it's pretty funny :) There is NO point made here...unless u want you brief. - Original Message - From: Joe Eugene [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 12:59 AM Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-08 Thread Dave Watts
No, I don't have any theories, just observations. If there are two ways to do something, and one works better than the other, I'll recommend the one that works. How do you OR i know...what works... unless you spent a few un-productive hours testing for what works? If i spend alot of

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-08 Thread Joe Eugene
Eugene -Original Message- From: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 3:20 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC) lol. I see you've gotten so worked up, you're just babbling now. Ah well. You could always try using PHP. Or maybe

Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-08 Thread Dave Carabetta
Yes, most developers just want to get something working and go home... and then there are others who... are passionate about what they do... Which one do you belog to :) And yet others are passionate, but read the documentation for a product and find out that a particular method to solving a

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-08 Thread Joe Eugene
-Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 11:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC) No, I don't have any theories, just observations. If there are two ways to do something, and one works better than

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-08 Thread Joe Eugene
Eugene -Original Message- From: Dave Carabetta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 2:36 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC) Yes, most developers just want to get something working and go home... and then there are others who

Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-08 Thread Kwang Suh
No, I got the point. You like to complain. - Original Message - From: Joe Eugene [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 12:14 PM Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC) LOL.. Yes, most developers just want to get something working and go

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Jim Davis
Joe, *what* have you been smoking? HTML has gotten the web where it is because it is the only game in town. And standards??? W3C? There is only one thing that will drive market acceptance and that is market dominance; not a committee of any sort. Ever. Macromedia has gotten

Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 13:21 US/Pacific, Adrocknaphobia Jones wrote: Yes CF is still the fastest. Up to about 6 months ago should be the primary goal of web any application developer, according to MM. I'll agree with the CF is still the fastest [language to develop HTML web apps]

Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Friday, Mar 7, 2003, at 00:23 US/Pacific, Jim Davis wrote: Flash may have achieved market dominance via pure market forces, but HTML, HTTP, CSS, SOAP, and XML have achieved market dominance via the work of the W3C. Niether force can be discounted or marginalized. Hmm, as someone who spent

Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Wheatley
a good browser :) (Opera) to use your site. - Original Message - From: Sean A Corfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 4:31 AM Subject: Re: The New Macromedia Website On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 14:08 US/Pacific, Adrocknaphobia Jones wrote

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Kevin Graeme
However, to put things bluntly, HTML sucks. It sucks really bad. It's the worst thing to happen to application interfaces in the short history of computing, next to the QWERTY keyboard. The success of HTML interfaces has been in spite of this awful step backwards in interface design, not

Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Willy Ray
, March 07, 2003 4:31 AM Subject: Re: The New Macromedia Website On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 14:08 US/Pacific, Adrocknaphobia Jones wrote: For the last few years I've been telling upper management that I can cut costs, raise quality, and employ less developers. Cold Fusion is the solution

RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website Except for the Download page that tells Opera users to Please Use a Supported Browser. Baby steps, I guess. Hopefully they'll get that working at some point soon. The home page is working great. So, as a developer who's doing some remoting, some

Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Wheatley
then get that pretty crap outta here. - Original Message - From: Willy Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:14 AM Subject: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website Except for the Download page that tells Opera users to Please Use

Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Stephen Moretti
PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:14 PM Subject: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website Except for the Download page that tells Opera users to Please Use a Supported Browser. Baby steps, I guess. Hopefully they'll get that working at some point soon

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Adrocknaphobia Jones
Wayne Lehman Web Systems Developer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Distance Education Division -Original Message- From: Todd Rafferty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 6:56 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website At 05:08 PM 3/6/2003

Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Wheatley
Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:14 PM Subject: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website Except for the Download page that tells Opera users to Please Use a Supported Browser. Baby steps, I guess. Hopefully they'll get that working

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
However, to put things bluntly, HTML sucks. It sucks really bad. It's the worst thing to happen to application interfaces in the short history of computing, next to the QWERTY keyboard. The success of HTML interfaces has been in spite of this awful step backwards in interface design,

RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Tony Weeg
www.navtrak.net 410.548.2337 -Original Message- From: Stephen Moretti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:40 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website Thought this link might be of interest to you all. http://www.markme.com/mesh

Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread ksuh
HTML hardly has any controls, compared to c/s environments such as VC++, VB, or Java. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Wheatley) Date: Friday, March 7, 2003 9:26 am Subject: Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website I was reading Dave Watts post about HTML

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
I agree that market factors can and do drive technology adoption, but a basic foundation must be in place first - and the W3C has given, and continues to give, us that foundation. It's not always on target (for example neither PNG or SMIL have particularly taken off) but what is? Flash

Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Stephen Moretti
by Ben Forta and Tim Buntel Discount tickets before March 14th 2003 - Original Message - From: Tony Weeg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 4:29 PM Subject: RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
However, to put things bluntly, HTML sucks. Html might suck.. but it has driven internet..to where it is today. Sure. That doesn't change the fact that it really, really sucks as an application interface. And who's to say that the internet wouldn't be in a better place today had things

Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for standardization. But the W3C can't bring about doodly-squat. All it can do is help vendors do what they want to do, if they want to do it. Watch that language Dave...you could make Ned Flanders blush with that potty mouth ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP

Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Massimo, Tiziana e Federica
But when we take an application out of the traditional browser, which the general consumer has _slowly_ grown comfortable with, we lose a lot of the structure and barriers. A very small aspect would be the multiple colors of active and visited links. From bookmarking and copying shortcuts to

RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Tony Weeg
, mapping reporting www.navtrak.net 410.548.2337 -Original Message- From: Stephen Moretti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:54 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website http://www.macromedia.com/security That news is a week

RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Kevin Graeme
Macromedia Website HTML hardly has any controls, compared to c/s environments such as VC++, VB, or Java. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Wheatley) Date: Friday, March 7, 2003 9:26 am Subject: Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website I was reading Dave

Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Wheatley
reporting www.navtrak.net 410.548.2337 -Original Message- From: Stephen Moretti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:40 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website Thought this link might be of interest to you all. http://www.markme.com

Re: RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Joe Eugene
players(IBM/MSFT/ORCL) and the W3C will be happy to play along with MM's invention.. yeah right!. Joe ---Original Message--- From: Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03/07/03 01:42 AM To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website Joe, *what* have you been

Re: RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Todd
if MM releases it to W3C and makes Flash open source. Too late... http://www.openswf.org/ ~Todd At 09:38 AM 3/7/2003 -0500, you wrote: Matt, Joe, *what* have you been smoking? smoking? Nah.. i passed it along*** :) HTML has gotten the web where it is because it is the only game in town.

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:52 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website I agree that market factors can and do drive technology adoption, but a basic foundation must be in place first

Re: RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread ksuh
:24 am Subject: RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website Yes, but the controls that HTML has all adhere to the interface standards of the host OS. This is in contrast to Flash widgets that look and feel differently not only within Flash in general, but in just about every Flash

Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Wheatley
Yes BETA MAX rocked! - Original Message - From: Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 12:04 PM Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website However, to put things bluntly, HTML sucks. Html might suck.. but it has driven internet..to where

Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Wheatley
to become the standard it has to allow to do the things people have been doing for 10 years. - Original Message - From: Kevin Graeme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 12:24 PM Subject: RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website Yes

Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com - Original Message - From: Kevin Graeme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:24 AM Subject: RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website Yes, but the controls that HTML has all adhere to the interface

Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Wheatley
www.macromedia.com/security/ - Original Message - From: Tony Weeg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 12:35 PM Subject: RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website :) no lynching here mang. I just happened to see it on cnn.com

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
For HTML this may have been the case, but market forces did force the companies to adopt the core standards fairly quickly. That's not stopping them from adding features (and the W3C isn't demanding that they don't) but it does level the playing field. So, again, what did the W3C

RE: RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
Not exactly.. there are some other technologies.. Again NOT supported by all browsers... So didnt get popular.. Same thing is going to happen to Flash/RIA.. HTML became popular cause there is standard (W3C).. so will XML and the beauty of it.. is.. You are NOT learning/coding

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Matt Robertson
Jim (and Joe), First of all, my comments were a bit off-the-cuff yesterday... It'd been a long one so if I've offended please forgive. I think a standards body is good for shepherding *new* things which have not yet gelled. However, when it comes to pronouncements on technologies which have

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Adrocknaphobia Jones
difficult. Adam Wayne Lehman Web Systems Developer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Distance Education Division -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:34 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website However

Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Bryan Stevenson
But what about the universal standard usability in HTML based applications? The power of HTML is its standardization. A drop down box is a drop down box no matter the browser, OS, internet connection. A user who recognizes an underlined word as a link, can assume that for all HTML based

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Andrew Tyrone
line is you have to give the client what they need, no more or no less. It's up to you and the client to determine what that is. --Andy -Original Message- From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 2:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New

Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Mike Chambers
PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:33 AM Subject: Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website Its amusing how they blame it on the evil browser though ;) I love html and i actually hate alot of things about flash. I hate you cant right click

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Joe Eugene
is trivial, i can play along with that. Joe Eugene ---Original Message--- From: Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03/07/03 12:04 PM To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website However, to put things bluntly, HTML sucks. Html might suck.. but it has

Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Wheatley
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 2:06 PM Subject: Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website When you talk about save as, and save as background, are you talking about the entire flash movie, or elements within the movie? In regards to the browser: http://www.markme.com/mesh/archives

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Andrew Tyrone
-Original Message- From: Joe Eugene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC) Dave.. I know plenty of people running CFMX production servers right now. They might disagree with your conclusion about

Re: RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Joe Eugene
---Original Message--- From: Andrew Tyrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03/07/03 02:56 PM To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC) -Original Message- From: Joe Eugene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:26 AM To: CF-Talk

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Kevin Graeme
The problem that I see is that a lot of people who do nothing but complain about a *supposed* CFMX bug waste a lot of time because they refuse to call tech support. And how much does it cost to call Tech Support? I need to get a bug in FlashMX addressed, but from their site it looks like it's

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Jim Davis
For HTML this may have been the case, but market forces did force the companies to adopt the core standards fairly quickly. That's not stopping them from adding features (and the W3C isn't demanding that they don't) but it does level the playing field. So, again, what did the W3C

RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
I was reading Dave Watts post about HTML sucking earlier and i am really curious dave why do you think it sucks. I hardly know where to begin. There are just so many reasons why it's bad for application interfaces. Just imagine if, for everything you did on your computer, you had to do it

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
Am just bringing up issues here...FOR the General GOOD OF CFMX!. It's one thing to say, hey, there's a problem and it should be fixed if possible. It's another thing to say that the product shouldn't have been released because of it. IF the Community/MM thinks a CFMX BUG is trivial, i can

RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Joe Eugene
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website I was reading Dave Watts post about HTML sucking earlier and i am really curious dave why do you think it sucks. I hardly know where to begin. There are just so many reasons why it's bad

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
How can you say that XML has achieved it's popularity solely on vendor actions? The spec and idea came first; vendor support followed. There are many specs and many ideas; few make it to fruition and become useful products. XML is popular because there are a bunch of products that use XML,

Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread jon hall
Friday, March 7, 2003, 4:38:38 PM, you wrote: Am just bringing up issues here...FOR the General GOOD OF CFMX!. DW It's one thing to say, hey, there's a problem and it should be fixed if DW possible. It's another thing to say that the product shouldn't have been DW released because of it. IF

Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Mike Chambers
Agreed. That is why the vast majority of the content in our site is in html. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Joe Eugene [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 1:22 PM Subject: RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Chris Alvarado
To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC) Am just bringing up issues here...FOR the General GOOD OF CFMX!. It's one thing to say, hey, there's a problem and it should be fixed if possible. It's another thing to say that the product shouldn't have been released because

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
But what about the universal standard usability in HTML based applications? The power of HTML is its standardization. A drop down box is a drop down box no matter the browser, OS, internet connection. A user who recognizes an underlined word as a link, can assume that for all HTML based

RE: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
Yes if you could copy and paste from within flash, open links in new windows and do everything you could with HTML in standard i would be happy with flash. it is extremly annoying and i would hope flash EVENTUALLY lets you do the same type things you can with html if it is the thing MM

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Joe Eugene
on CF OR CF Tags. IF CFMX problems dont get fixed.. developers will eventually start looking at alternatives... Just Simple Fact. Joe Eugene ---Original Message--- From: Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03/07/03 04:38 PM To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The New Macromedia

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
I think one of the root causes of this kind of frustration is that it's very difficult to know what the status of a fix is. The bug list isn't public, and if it is available to anyone outside of macromedia they don't mention it anywhere, or are limited by some kind of nda. We ran into

Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Joe Eugene
would put into request or something like that.. Yes.. this would be nice. Joe ---Original Message--- From: jon hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03/07/03 05:02 PM To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC) Friday, March 7, 2003, 4:38:38 PM, you wrote: Am

Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Kevin Graeme wrote: The problem that I see is that a lot of people who do nothing but complain about a *supposed* CFMX bug waste a lot of time because they refuse to call tech support. And how much does it cost to call Tech Support? I need to get a bug in FlashMX addressed, but from their site

Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Mike Chambers
At the time it was stated that it is some that we were considering. That has not changed at this point. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Joe Eugene [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 2:39 PM Subject: Re: The New

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
It's another thing to say that the product shouldn't have been released because of it. It might be your nature to release BUG/GY applications... I Dont operate that way. So, you're saying that if there's ANY bug at all in CFMX, it shouldn't have been released? I'd still be waiting for my

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 5:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC) I think one of the root causes of this kind of frustration is that it's very difficult to know what the status

Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Friday, Mar 7, 2003, at 07:14 US/Pacific, Willy Ray wrote: Except for the Download page that tells Opera users to Please Use a Supported Browser. Baby steps, I guess. Hopefully they'll get that working at some point soon. Opera does not currently support Flash Remoting properly which is

Re: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-07 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Friday, Mar 7, 2003, at 12:54 US/Pacific, Dave Watts wrote: I hardly know where to begin. There are just so many reasons why it's bad for application interfaces. Just imagine if, for everything you did on your computer, you had to do it through an HTML interface. Just compare it to the

Public Bug Base? was (RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC))

2003-03-07 Thread Todd Rafferty
Just out of curiousity what does MM use internally for defect tracking? I've often thought that Allaire's and now MM's knowledge base was very weak. The articles are very difficult to find due to the poor searching and often not specific enough to the many product versions in use. A really good

Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Mike Chambers
We have a completely new search system in place now, so that may address some of your concerns. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Jim Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've often thought that Allaire's and now MM's knowledge base was very weak. The articles are very

Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Massimo, Tiziana e Federica
I've often thought that Allaire's and now MM's knowledge base was very weak. The articles are very difficult to find due to the poor searching and often not specific enough to the many product versions in use. I am not especially happy about the new website, but the search capabilities are

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Debbie Dickerson
Hallelujah (about your search results, that is). :-) Deb -Original Message- From: Massimo, Tiziana e Federica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 7:52 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC) I am not especially happy about the new website

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Jim Davis
We have a completely new search system in place now, so that may address some of your concerns. I haven't checked it out yet. No problems in the last few days. ;^) But if it works, GREAT! I do agree with the other posters that bugs should get special treatment in the knowledge base - even

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Joe Eugene
: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 6:11 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC) It's another thing to say that the product shouldn't have been released because of it. It might be your nature to release BUG/GY applications... I Dont

Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Kwang Suh
Mr. Watts can defend himself, but you completely missed the point of his answer. - Original Message - From: Joe Eugene [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 8:52 PM Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC) So, you're saying that if there's

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
I am NOT saying ANY.. software is not perfect!. We are not talking about one specific issue... CFMX has had numerous issues... (Check Updater Docs... if you want to start counting them) Every complex software product I've ever seen has numerous bugs. I'm not sure why you'd expect CFMX to

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Joe Eugene
but you completely missed the point of his answer. There is NO point made here...unless u want you brief. Joe Eugene -Original Message- From: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC) Mr

RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC)

2003-03-07 Thread Joe Eugene
- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 12:21 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website(ODBC) I am NOT saying ANY.. software is not perfect!. We are not talking about one specific issue... CFMX has had numerous issues... (Check Updater Docs

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Scott Brady
-- Original Message -- From: Jaye Morris - jayeZERO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instead of having such a strong knee jerk reaction, perhaps we should help them beta test this thing and offer CONSTRUCTIVE DIRECTION. Even experts can learn new methods. They seem

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Adrocknaphobia Jones
-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website Wow. Talk about culture shock. There has been quite a bit said today about the new (beta) version of the layout. I have checked out the site and it was well done. Personally I was impressed with some of the backend action going on. Pretty tight

Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Joe Eugene
will be of any value to scalable/high traffic(eg ebay,amazon etc) Web Applications. Joe ---Original Message--- From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03/06/03 02:12 PM To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website Jaye, You made some great points, but I'd

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Chris Kief
You made some great points, but I'd like to elaborate on the culture shock. This isn't culture shock for new technology, as web developers, the only technology that can give us culture shock, is _old_ technology, or the lack of change. The shock is the complete turn of stance by MM. Macromedia

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Haggerty, Mike
, March 06, 2003 11:50 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: The New Macromedia Website Very well said... Adam. I still do belive.. RIA is just another hype...just like applets, which didnt go anywhere..inpsite of the fact that applet techniques were Non-Proprietary. You might see some flashy marketing type

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Jaye Morris - jayeZERO.com
, March 06, 2003 2:12 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website Jaye, You made some great points, but I'd like to elaborate on the culture shock. This isn't culture shock for new technology, as web developers, the only technology that can give us culture shock, is _old_ technology

Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Mike Chambers
- Original Message - From: Chris Kief [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's happens now, is that MM is saying the _complete_ opposite. They are contradicting everything they have said, which quite frankly breeds the mistrust I see popping up rapidly in the last few months. I don't agree with

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Bud
CFMX and sessions. Hi all. Every time I think I've turned the corner with MX, it bites me in the rear. OK Batman. Riddle me this: How in the world do you keep a session alive in CFMX when... A) Cookies are disabled and B) You move from one domain to the other ??? I have 3 situations with

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Dave Watts
Macromedia has marketed Cold Fusion as the fastest and easiest way to create dynamic web based applications. That's been the core of CF with the philosophy of getting applications out the door fast, at a very low cost. I don't think that's changed any. CF is still the fastest and easiest

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Jaye Morris - jayeZERO.com
Not to be a jerk but you probably could if you passed the info to a shared object in FlashMX. Jaye -Original Message- From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 3:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website CFMX and sessions. Hi all. Every time I

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Bud
ACK!!! I hit reply to that subject to save time and tabbedonce too often and the subject went to the top of the e-mail. OOPS and sorry. I'll re-post with the correct subject. :) -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Adrocknaphobia Jones
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 3:12 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website You made some great points, but I'd like to elaborate on the culture shock. This isn't culture shock for new technology, as web developers, the only technology that can give us culture shock

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Jaye Morris - jayeZERO.com
You don't (AFAIK) Jaye -Original Message- From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 3:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website CFMX and sessions. Hi all. Every time I think I've turned the corner with MX, it bites me in the rear. OK Batman

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Adrocknaphobia Jones
Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website Adam, What I am about to say is simply based on my experience and impression. Point by point I would reflect it back to you this way: 1. The shock is the complete turn of stance by MM. Jaye's Response: Instead of saying complete turn of stance, I would say

Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Bryan Stevenson
- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com - Original Message - From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:08 PM Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website Jaye I think

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Matt Robertson
Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website You made some great points, but I'd like to elaborate on the culture shock. This isn't culture shock for new technology, as web developers, the only technology that can give us culture shock, is _old_ technology, or the lack of change. The shock is the complete

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Todd Rafferty
At 05:08 PM 3/6/2003 -0500, Adrocknaphobia Jones wrote: My underlying issue is that Macromedia is very fickle. I can't tell you where they are going to be in a year. Which mean I don't know where I, a MM developer will be in a year either. Then don't upgrade? Keep the current version you have

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Dave Watts
Jaye I think we're starting to argue semantics and not the facts. I agree with the trip methodology, but when I got in the car, macromedia told me the destination was rapid development and lower costs. The new altered path is u-turn, because now we are heading towards longer development

Re: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Bryan Stevenson
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:28 PM Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website Jaye I think we're starting to argue semantics and not the facts. I agree with the trip methodology, but when I got in the car, macromedia told me the destination was rapid development and lower costs

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Joe Eugene
.. JUST FACT! :) Joe Eugene -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:29 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website Jaye I think we're starting to argue semantics and not the facts. I agree with the trip

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-06 Thread Matt Robertson
Joe, *what* have you been smoking? HTML has gotten the web where it is because it is the only game in town. And standards??? W3C? There is only one thing that will drive market acceptance and that is market dominance; not a committee of any sort. Ever. Macromedia has gotten themselves installed

RE: The New Macromedia Website

2003-03-05 Thread Jaye Morris - jayeZERO.com
Wow. Talk about culture shock. There has been quite a bit said today about the new (beta) version of the layout. I have checked out the site and it was well done. Personally I was impressed with some of the backend action going on. Pretty tight indeed. Try out the Your account section. I

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