Posted by PerfectReign on 01/16/07 00:09

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:28:30 -0800, Onideus Mad Hatter got out the hammer
and chisel and etched in the wall:

> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:58:45 +0100, "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
> wrote:
>
>>> Check out my undefeatable list:
>>>
>>> 1. support of 32 bit JPEGs
>>>
>>> 2. fully cross operating system compatible
>
>>Quite many (most) operating systems that don't have flash support, yes, you
>>have gplflash and gnash, but not usable.
>>
>>Even if GNU/Linux x86 has a flash plugin, it do not have the same features as
>>the one written for microsoft, so many flash based sites just don't work well
>>and many times don't work at all.
>
> Sorry, Deficient, but yer about 5 months the fuck out of date:
> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html
>
> Adobe/Macromedia released a beta version of Flash 9 for Linux back in
> November I believe and so far it hasn't choked on anything I've thrown
> at it so unless you can provide ACTUAL PROOF that there are SPECIFIC
> things which won't work on the beta release..

Yeah, I wasn't quite sure what decade he/she/it was in either.

I've yet to see a site - unless it is specifally coded not to recognize
Flash9 - which fails. If it isn't coded correctly that's the web
designer's fault.


>
>>With other words, flash suxx for web design if you want people to be
>>able to use the site.
>
> WRONG!
>
> Flash, even the latest versions work on anything, Mac, Windows, Linux
> with ALL the mainstream browsers including IE, Netscape, Firefox, Opera,
> Konqueror, Safari, etc. About the only thing it doesn't work on is
> Linx...and that's half the reason you include a plain text fall back
> version of the site (the other half is for the few remaining deficient
> search engines that can't spider the text content of Flash files).
>


Nah, your site works fine in FF/Linux. I just don't like it for use in
things other than web applications.

As I've mentioned many times, I think craigslist does a great job of site
design. http://losangeles.craigslist.org/ Only one script line - and that
is for a URL.

That site is straight and to the point. Even beats the CMS I'm using for
my site.

Now, as mentioned for applications I very much see the benefit of Flash.
In fact, I'd probably like it better than AJAX for developing. Of course,
my staff seems to like ASP.NET and C# for their development purposes.

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