[thelist] Flash or DHTML?

John Dowdell jdowdell at macromedia.com
Thu Nov 29 17:34:33 CST 2001


At 3:21 PM 11/29/1, Peter Kaulback wrote:
>I have a home page with four images on it, each 1 inch wide by 2.5 inches
>high.  My client wants these to be slide shows, each with it's own set 3 to
>6 images. Now I'm trying to figure if this can be done with DHTML without
>crashing the browser or if Flash would be better suited.  Like I said,
>there could be 24 images loading and all the same 1" x 2.5".  Any ideas
>would be most helpful.

Using a simple JavaScript timeline might be better, because browsers
naturally display JPGs and GIFs with one pixel of source image displayed on
exactly one pixel of the screen.

Flash can show photographic content, but it's very easy to resize photos or
use sub-pixel positioning... it isn't fixed-resolution like HTML is.

jd





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