Posted by Travis Newbury on 10/09/07 09:03

On Oct 8, 4:54 pm, SpaceGirl <nothespacegirls...@subhuman.net> wrote:
> >>>> What (in your opinion) does flash do best?
> >> Animated graphics. Interactive maps and sideshows. Entertainment
> >> fritterware. Elements with a page...
> > To that list I add:
> > Any web video
> > Any simulation
> > Any image/audio/video synchronization
> > Any time you need the application screen to be exactly the same on
> > every system (GREAT for intranet web applications such as the LMS I
> > built for Siemens)
> > Banner ads
> > Anything that needs to be interactive (Filling in a form is not what I
> > classify as this type of interactive)
> > and of course, games and simple eye-candy
> > What it's not good for:
> > Complete websites
> > text based information site (like, but not limited to sites like
> > google)
> > menus/navigation

> I disagree, and this is exactly what I was arguing. Flash COULD be used
> for ANY of those... it depends on context - meaning the audience, the
> content etc...

Unfortunately you are disagreeing with something that was never said.
(you had to have misread what I typed)

I stated the kinds of things Flash does BEST (Flashes strong points).
No where did I say that these were the things one HAD to do in
flash.

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