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Posted by Travis Newbury on 08/21/07 09:13
On Aug 20, 10:10 pm, William Gill <nore...@example.invalid> wrote:
> Advertising loading delay with "loading..." isn't very good. However,
> if you are suggesting that bandwidth is not a factor, I don't agree.
> Everything must load eventually.
It is your lack of knowledge about Flash development and Actionscript
that causes you to disagree. What I am saying is that a good Flash
developer can make a site filed with Flash that is no heavier than the
same site with HTML and images. The Flash you are use to seeing is
fat and bloated.
> A good developer may disguise the
> loading, he may optimize the file size, but he can't accelerate it.
A good flash developer has nothing to disguise. Flash is not
inherently fat and bloated. Bad Flash is. The problem comes from
Flash was originally used my artists, Actionscript was almost
powerless. When MX was released Marcomedia started to see the
benefits in having a powerful scripting language. The ability to make
Flash lighter had appeared. Now with Flash CS and AS 3.0, a very
powerful development language, I now have the ability to create very
light Flash object that are more powerful that anything earlier
version of Flash could do.
> > But the point is, if the Flash drives more people to the site than it
> > drives away form the site, then it is a good thing.
>
> I can't disagree with your logic, but I wonder about your metrics. How
> do you measure how many were driven away?
Well you take a base line. From there you look and listen.
> > Enjoyed by all is an unreachable goal. You could never develop a site
> > that will please everyone.
>
> Enjoyed may have been a poor choice of words on my part, taste is
> subjective. However, I'm pretty sure if someone can't view my site, the
> chances that they will like it are greatly reduced.
Google's product is words, and its visitors are looking for words. It
would be dumb for them to use Flash for anything that produces those
words. The Warcraft site is visual, about a game, its visitors are
looking for fun and action. You can't do that with words (at lease
not to todays kids). A site developer has to do a little research
before they can make any decision about the technologies they will use
on their site, and how they will use them. Blanket rules don't work.
Every site must cater to its customers or the customers will go to
another site that does cater to them. So using flash just because you
can is dumb. Using Flash because it make your site better to those
that will actually use your site is smart. And the exact opposite is
true too. NOT using Flash when that is what your customers are
demanding is equally as dumb.
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