Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 08/14/05 04:26

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:53:07 +1000, Vampi Fangs <vampi@nwglfo.org>
wrote:

>On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:21:46 -0700, Onideus Mad Hatter
><usenet@backwater-productions.net> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 03:39:54 -0400, Meat Plow <meat@meatplow.local>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:06:27 -0700, Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
>>>
>>>> Subject: Ya Know...
>>>> From: Onideus Mad Hatter <usenet@backwater-productions.net>
>>>> Newsgroups: alt.hackers.malicious,alt.2600,alt.flame,alt.usenet.kooks,alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk,alt.html
>>>> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:06:27 -0700
>>>>
>>>> Flash is pretty damn fuckin badass...
>>>
>>>And it only took you what, 3 or 4 years to realize this?
>>
>>32 minutes actually.
>
>several more months than that, as i recall

No, 32 minutes. That's exactly how long it took to build the original
prototype in Flash and compare the file sizes against teh .js version
and confirm that it supported transparencies.

Although, to be perfectly honest what I said may have been somewhat
misleading. Flash is badass as far as cross compatibility and it's
image manipulation abilities. However it is severely lacking in
positioning precision, which is why it shouldn't be used for large
scale split form sites. It would be essentially impossible to use
Flash for the backdrop of the blog site unless I altered it to be a
static image...of course at that point it would be about 3 times as
large. And, the other thing to note is that Flash is only as good as
your ability to encode images properly, a skill which not very many
people have. So essentially Flash is badass when someone who knows
what they're doing, like me, uses it. In the hands of an amateur,
it's an absolutely useless alternative.

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Onideus Mad Hatter
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