Posted by Neredbojias on 10/09/07 00:18

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:11:15
GMT SpaceGirl scribed:

>>> 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.

Yep, browsers do pretty much suck at html/css interpolation - all of
them. My personal ranking (for everything), best-to-worst, is Mozilla,
Ie6, and Opera. Ie7 is waaaaay down on the list. But none of them are
anywhere near "right as rain".

Also, I think I'm getting to like Flash/Flex more. In the above "Flash
Wars", I saw some pretty darn good sites. Even if they weren't all they
should be, they could have been with the right touch. <Sigh>, I s'pose
I'll have to just hitch up mah trousers and learn the damn stuff before
technology overtakes me - again. Despite its nostaglic exigency,
html/css does seem very much like a dead end in the future - especially
with the browser-barons' lack of concordance.

--
Neredbojias
Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.

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