Posted by Ben C on 10/07/07 20:58

On 2007-10-07, SpaceGirl <nothespacegirlspam@subhuman.net> wrote:
[...]
> I was trying to show to a tech demo of the sort of things that can be
> done.

The demo is cool. How does Java3D compare to Flash for that sort of
thing?

[...]
> We live in a multimedia world. The WWW is changing every day, and
> we're moving further away from the flat page metaphor for describing
> information.

The www _is_ changing every day, but at the moment I think, in the
opposite direction.

More and more sites now seem to be favouring cleaner designs with quite
a lot of readable text on them.

Perhaps SEO is part of the reason, perhaps also people are reaching for
the TV or the PlayStation instead if they want video or 3D and using the
web more for information.

[...]
> Web sites are about communicating. There is no one "official" way to
> do this. Something delivered via the WWW can be in whatever form works
> best for your audience. I wouldn't, for example, dream of advocating
> Flash to replace Google.com - it's perfectly possible (for the most)
> to do it, but it's the wrong medium / wrong tool for the job.

Have you seen http://www.kartoo.com?

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