Re: Flash in the pan

From: Chris Stowell <chris_stowell_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue 25 Apr 2000 10:03:01 +0100 (BST)

PATRICIA PHILIIPS WROTE:
> I would be interested in knowing of all the people in
> this group and their clients, who has a flash intro on
> their site and how often is it just skipped over? I
> think flash is visually interesting, but it doesn't
> seem to be useful in communicating to an audience who
> uses a modem. Why even bother?

Hi Patricia

As a Flash developer I felt that I needed to "unlurk"
and put something straight...

I feel that it's not a case of what the technology is
(or isn't doing) but how developers are using it.

Firstly, which technology allows you to have an
animated, full screen, resolution independent splash
screen that is less than 5Kb is size? erm... Flash?

Sure, many sites have big, slow to download, over
engineered animations using Flash - but how many use
large image files, poor HTML and are slow to load?

I feel that Flash has a lot to offer and is a
technology that works extremely well to improve the
user experience - plenty of the Flash versions of our
sites are quicker to download, are percieved to run
faster by the user, and provide a richer more memorable
experience for the individual... is that not closer to
a perfect environment than a flat HTML page?

> Why even bother?

I'd definately bother... don't knock the technology,
you just need to use a good developer that understands
bandwidth issues and has the experience to pull the job
off :-)

Regards

Chris




Received on Tue Apr 25 2000 - 04:03:01 CDT