Posted by SpaceGirl on 10/08/07 21:11

Neredbojias wrote:
> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:48:09 GMT
> Andy Dingley scribed:
>
>>> The irony being? Flash files can be, much, much smaller than average
>>> web pages. You can get a complete UI inside just a few Kb.
>> Example please.
>>
>> Followed by a compulsory education program for the multitude of Flash
>> coders who don't appreciate this.
>>
>>
>> If Flash is so wonderful and so easy to produce, wwhy is so much of it
>> so bad?
>
> Probably because it's _not_ that easy to produce and only argumentally
> possible in the first place. In one of his more lucid moments, Onideus
> sent me to some url (probably Adobe) which had stuff on how to make Flash
> "entities". I got dizzy just looking at it. Sure, maybe if I were a kid
> just starting out, I might "jump into the fray" so to speak, but it isn't
> simple by any means. Furthermore, it's still proprietary no matter how you
> sugar-coat it.
>

Proprietary is not always bad though. Look at the mess of the browser
market - not ONE browser meets the specifications the browser
manufactures agreed. Even worse than that, each implements most of the
standards slightly differently. Flash works the same everywhere, on
almost all platforms. If only Open software could even come close to
that. This is the problem though: There are a lot of very smart geeks in
the world and they all have their own arrogant belief that their way is
best, without actually thinking about Users. This is another reason why
so much OS software is horrible to look at. Created by programmers, who
can only think like programmers.

Average folks aren't programmers - or designers for that matter.

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