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Posted by Vampi Fangs on 08/14/05 04:55
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:26:54 -0700, Onideus Mad Hatter
<usenet@backwater-productions.net> wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:53:07 +1000, Vampi Fangs <vampi@nwglfo.org>
>wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:21:46 -0700, Onideus Mad Hatter
>><usenet@backwater-productions.net> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 03:39:54 -0400, Meat Plow <meat@meatplow.local>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:06:27 -0700, Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Subject: Ya Know...
>>>>> From: Onideus Mad Hatter <usenet@backwater-productions.net>
>>>>> Newsgroups: alt.hackers.malicious,alt.2600,alt.flame,alt.usenet.kooks,alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk,alt.html
>>>>> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:06:27 -0700
>>>>>
>>>>> Flash is pretty damn fuckin badass...
>>>>
>>>>And it only took you what, 3 or 4 years to realize this?
>>>
>>>32 minutes actually.
>>
>>several more months than that, as i recall
>
>No, 32 minutes. That's exactly how long it took to build the original
>prototype in Flash and compare the file sizes against teh .js version
>and confirm that it supported transparencies.
>
>Although, to be perfectly honest what I said may have been somewhat
>misleading. Flash is badass as far as cross compatibility and it's
>image manipulation abilities.
you have certainly changed your tune
Message-ID: <960o111qs32fsms8n32g2vgjs8ciet1p5i@4ax.com>
"Actually no, bitch, again, using Flash would be like opening Internet
Explorer inside of Internet Explorer...why the fuck would I want to do
that?"
Message-ID: <ckbo11pgq26p10vla6n0a7i4prdnirnorg@4ax.com>
"Or in your case just cop out, use Flash and essentially surf from
Internet Explorer loaded into yer shit browser."
btw since when have you cared about cross browser compatibility?
it's interesting however that gecko based browsers are grabbing even
more of the market share ... up to 37% according to
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm
>However it is severely lacking in
>positioning precision,
how so?
>which is why it shouldn't be used for large
>scale split form sites. It would be essentially impossible to use
>Flash for the backdrop of the blog site unless I altered it to be a
>static image...of course at that point it would be about 3 times as
>large.
you could consider the astounding possibility of mixing flash with
html
> And, the other thing to note is that Flash is only as good as
>your ability to encode images properly, a skill which not very many
>people have. So essentially Flash is badass when someone who knows
>what they're doing, like me, uses it. In the hands of an amateur,
>it's an absolutely useless alternative.
guffaw
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