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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/07/07 14:29
SpaceGirl wrote:
> dorayme wrote:
>> In article <1191685585.333485.3580@o3g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
>> Travis Newbury <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 5, 6:27 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>>> In article <6443e$47066d6e$40cba7be$6...@NAXS.COM>,
>>>> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@centralva.net> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Again, we keep hearing about these wonderful, accessible,
>>>>> low-bandwidth
>>>>> flash sites but no examples... Sounds like a Unicorn hunt.
>>>> I do recall someone (I think it might have been Bergamot) putting
>>>> a similar and very reasonable question to old Travis a while
>>>> back. Travis disappeared for a while, it was the most silent I
>>>> have ever heard him be. I think he might have hurried to a
>>>> holiday destination the furthest from any computer likely to have
>>>> a connection to a ng.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> dorayme
>>> Provided an example yesterday look for it in this thread.
>>
>> I did notice a huge hunk of impressive looking code from you soon
>> after I posted. This is a "wonderful, accessible, low-bandwidth
>> flash site"?
>> Seriously, I am sure it is something; but an example of a site site it
>> is not.
>>
>
>
> Here's a great example:
>
> http://dev.getoutsmart.com/os3d/demos/videoroom/
>
> Entire 3d engine, with UI's projected onto the walls and a character
> than can walk around. Under 100Kb, created in Flex, which is Adobe's
> tool for generating Flash on the fly.
Wow! At a download rate that oscillated between 5.1-5.2kb/sec, pretty
much the max on dialup, I got to watch an inane gyrating atom thingy for
2min 15sec! Then it improved to a BLACK screen with a small line of
teeny writing for 40 secs when finally a little boy showed up! Wow again
3 minuets of pure heart-stopping entertainment only to be rewarded with
with this graphic with writing that looks about 8 pixels high on *a
curve* that I cannot change at all.... I guess the dark grey text on
black at the bottom at a generous 10 pixels high, that I also cannot
adjust, is supposed to help! The whole this sits in a static 700 pixels
rectangle...oooh.
Sorry, all "flash" no guts. I'm sorry but after the gee-factor wears
off, this would be very frustrating experience if you are trying to get
any info from such a site. It is kind of like those themes for Windows
that at added animations, noises and fancy screensavers to your PC. Cute
for the moment but if you actually did work on your PC, well...
The problem is both you and Travis have miss the point. It is no how
small the initial script is, (I showed how small a Perl script can be),
but how small the end product that downloads that's important. AND
whether or not it can be usable to the "user"!
--
Take care,
Jonathan
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