[thelist] Flash MX in a corporate site?

[Matt Liotta]

This is why they make the Flash plug-in such a small download. Even a
person on a dial-up can download the plug-in quickly.

-Matt

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> On Behalf Of Stéphane Gosselin
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 12:42 PM
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> Subject: [thelist] Flash MX in a corporate site?
>
> Hey. Tried out FLASH MX,  was truly amazed. Within 2 hours, no prior
> knowledge of the product,  I had myself a beautiful Mysql/PHP driven
> multi-level menu .... built from SCRATCH. Inlcudes the db-setup, the
php
> script that tampers the xml file needed by the menu component.
>
> Now. The sad part is..... does not export in FLASH5 FORMAT. Hmmm.
>
> A menu element wich can only be accessed by the users having
FlashPlayer 6
> installed makes that element .. unusable on a commercial point of
view,
> IMHO.....
>
> oh well. Nice work, Macro-M, but this dude will be waiting a few
months (
> if not a year or 2 ) for the player to be installed on an acceptable
> percentage of clients. MM seems very aggressive on making this product
> more
> friendly to developers, it s too bad that it ain t ACCESSIBLE enough
yet
> for the average everyday surfer as a whole.
>
> By the time it DOES become installed on an acceptable number of web
> enabled
> devices, like 80% +, whre one could just provide a dynamic html
version
> for
> the remaining 10%, my guess is a new FLASH_WOW_MORE_TOYS will be put
out,
> making us drool some more for things that, again, we won t be able to
use.
> Isn t this a funny developpement cycle?
>
> Backwards compatibility would have been appreciated, but it's a tough
nut
> to crack on products of that nature.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
>
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