Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 01/15/07 20:44

On 15 Jan 2007 17:08:41 GMT, PerfectReign
<perfectreign@xr4ti.tinfoilcat.com> wrote:

>Um, says the guy with the Flash website?

Flash, specifically used in my web form: LAMP FX is the be all and end
all solution to web design...at least at present. Java and to a
lesser extent VB is the ONLY real POSSIBLE contender (although at
present both of those don't even come close to matching what Flash can
do).

Check out my undefeatable list:

1. support of 32 bit JPEGs

2. fully cross operating system compatible

3. fully cross browser compatible

4. support of the On2 VP6 codec

5. support of color matrices

6. support of audio spectrum analysis

7. support of alpha transparent video

8. fully cross browser support of alpha transparent PNG files
(possible with a bunch of extra Javascript…even then though there are
compatibility issues)

9. ability to track the number of bytes loaded on a particular object

10. the ability to dynamically control the loading of media files
(could be done in Javascript but not as easily and less efficiently)

11. direct connection to ports with the ability to “talk” directly
with a particular protocols language

12. ability to analyze and manipulate image pixel data in a whole
variety of ways. (only Java is comparable in that respect)

13. ability to stop a media file from being loaded during the loading
process

14. ability to control the resizing of elements, being able to turn on
and off smoothing for specific elements and making use of bilinear and
bicubic resampling. (can be done with a combination of PHP and
javascript, but it less cross browser compatible and uses 10 times the
amount of server resources and is about 700% slower, even with server
side image caching.)

15. fully custom cursors (can be done with SOME versions of IE using
CSS, but even then yer limited to cur files and can’t use larger
images)

16. custom context menus

17. custom scroll bars

18. FIFTY TIMES FASTER than javascript

19. custom video/audio controls (can be done ~somewhat~ with
javascript but ONLY with certain browsers like IE…and even then with
only about half the functionality that you can get with Flash, like
you can’t track how much has been loaded/streamed and you can’t track
the play positioning)

20. direct support, creation and control over vector based graphics

There’s TWENTY different things that can ONLY be done with Flash.
There’s a couple that ~sorta~ can be done without it…but only if you
want to make your sites so that they only function on Internet
Explorer…and even then you can’t get ALL the functionality that Flash
offers.

Even for just a PLAIN TEXT site my form is VASTLY superior to using
HTML and CSS; mostly cause you can use embedded fonts, you can have
liquid sizable text as opposed to just liquid space stretched text and
you get proper font antialiasing in Flash.

The ONLY reason for NOT using my form...is deficiency and ignorance.
Unless of course you'd like to try and claim that there's something
ANOTHER form could do that mine can't...LOL...sometimes I get a kick
out of asking the impossible from the lessers. ^_^

>Seriously, never bag on another's abilities. That makes you appear like
>you're trying to compensate for something you're lacking.

The only thing I'm lacking is people who can formulate a counter
argument to my form.

>Oh, and for the record, Mara's websites are pleasing to the eye,

Oh yes, shit brown is *SO* very pleasing to the eye.

>functional,

Not really...in fact functional wise on her main site is
just...horrible. She has plain text links that don't even look like
links (she took off the underlining) and the only indication that they
are links is that there's a color change when you roll the mouse
over...which is just plainly fucking retarded because then you have to
roll the gawd damn mouse over EVERY piece of text, trying to find out
what is and what isn't a link. Furthermore, it's quite common for
sites to put their navigation bars up at the top, the first thing
people are gonna do is start tryin to click on that text at the top,
thinkin that's the nav. There's also no real description of what the
site is offering, the first thing that pops up is crappy examples of
work that she's done...normally you would want to list those in a
SEPARATE section. The FIRST thing that should come up with a welcome
type screen that tells visitors what the hell it is you're offering
and a brief description as to WHY they should choose YOUR business
over someone else's. Then you should have another section that goes
into more details about what it is you're offering and why it's
superior to what others are offering.

>spartan

No, THIS is spartan:
http://www.csszengarden.com/
(seems to be down at the moment, but it should be back up later)

Mara's site:
http://www.helloworldwebdesign.com/
Is just plain DEFICIENCY of style. Not having a style doesn't mean
that you have a minimalist style, it just means YOU DON'T HAVE A
FUCKING STYLE, ya fuckin retard.

>and CSS compliant.

Which means nothing. Adhering to the W3Cs RECOMMENDATIONS in NO WAY
equates to cross browser or cross operating system compatibility...in
fact what's interesting is that all to often the MOST compatible
methods are the most rejected methods by the W3C and the MOST
INCOMPATIBLE methods are the most ACCEPTED methods by the W3C. Simply
put, anyone who puts a lot of stock into adhering to the W3Cs line of
stupidity is an IDIOT.

>Oh - and they don't require some
>fucked up third party plugin.

The Flash plugin is now required for a good 70% of all the content
available online. And saying it's "third party" makes about as much
sense as saying that Firefox is "third party" in that it didn't come
prepackaged with Windows. Coincidentally child, Flash *IS*
prepackaged with most all modern browsers...so yer full of shit again.
^_^

Oh hey...if you haven't already (don't worry, yer slow, I'm sure it
takes time to catch up)...feel stupid now! `, )

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