Leeds is full of angels and they all avoid the church.
If every angel's terrible, how come we've got Coco Rosie? Even though they display a veno,mous disdain for the honest and humble web designer. All the more so since Flash became the Betamax of the triple-double yer. OK - it hasn't happened yet, but sites like Coco Rosie's are a good illustration of the pitfalls of Flash. Any aspiring Flash developers might do well to contact them.
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Flash, betamax? Once again, theories based on NO RESEARCH.
Did you SEE their site? PhP, Java and xhtml are far more important in the development of web technology. It is an opinion - not a 'theory'. Show me your research.
Also these little babies are doing rather well and seem well placed to expand in the future: W3C's SVG and SMIL .
You can’t form an opinion on something as objective as web technologies with no adequate research. If you did a simple search on some big website you’d find that the main consumer websites from Mars, Nokia, Twix and Honda etc all use Flash-websites and show no signs of changing in the near future. The technologies you are suggesting, in particular the Nazi W3C, are web development tools which Flash has never boasted to be. The future of
Since I started using Flash in ‘02, I have discovered that it is a design environment which uses vectors in a way that other technologies have not yet mastered. An exception is svg which I know little about, but I do know that you need a separate plug-in to view the content, which has to be downloaded separately. Flash Player 10 comes bundled with all browsers and thanks to one of the most visited sites in history, YouTube, 98%-99% of all computer users across the have the Flash plug-in installed. There was a time where I would agreed with you, around 4 years ago, but since the success of YouTube, Flash is here to stay and its extensive usage across the previously mentioned sites, as well as other big big company websites means that there is still a lot of money to be made in that area.
When Sony brought out Betamax they intended to take on VHS, and offered nothing new to the consumer (as well as being the inferior product) – that’s why it failed. Macromedia, however, developed Flash to offer new opportunities to the web browser and has been around since the mid-90s, so it is in NO WAY a technology which has sprung up overnight to take on the nearest competitor, because I believe that there are no real “competitors”. Flash hasn’t rivalled web languages and technologies the way that Betamax took on VHS. Sony got what they deserved.
Do you not think I would fully research a technology before I decided I wanted to start a business within it? Do you not trust that that I would steer well away from all that is “Betamax”? I did my research properly and found some eye-opening facts about Flash which are commonly unknown to the public. Flash suffered a hit in the years of pop-up adverts but has fought its way back to the top. My avenue is going to Advergaming - companies paying for Flash games to use for viral marketing purposes. I guess if they really knew what they were doing they would be better off spending their money on SVG games…..
Happy New Year, Simon.
I can form an opinion on anything I like - thank you. There is no necessity for this kind of jackbooted pseudo-objectivity in the forming of opinions. Opinions are simply judgements based on experience or the lack of it. When we are dealing with such rapidly altering technologies, objectivity usually takes second place to things like hunches, gambles and judgements. The facts are never in.
I have kept a vague eye on Flash developments since it first started and have seen the rise and fall of the idea of it as a total solution to web design. I think an element of Flash or some derivative will remain as a component, for sure - but many of its unique functionalities are now being devised by other means. In my opinion, this is the way forward.
Happy New Year to you too and good luck in your venture. At least it provoked a reaction.
Let's see how things stand in 5 years or so....
The picture illustrates Joseph's (Hardy/Far from the madding crowd)'multiplying eye'. Such heaven and such hell.
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