Former Re: [Javascript] flash v dhtml

[javascript@xxxxxxxxxx (rhh)]

Me too. Moreover we shoud have a plug-in, moreover we need to learn a new
language to do the SAME final visual effect we can do using Java/DHTML (some
people say Flash is java-compatible... ;);) etc So why Flash?).
By the way, do you know Barn, how can I load an off-site page within a local
frame and also support my local (left) window ok?
Ric

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----- Original Message -----
From: "databarn" <databarn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <javascript@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Javascript] flash v dhtml


Flash is nice for a targeted audience that has the same perceptual
capabilities as the developer(s).  But you know what . . . I couldn't see
the menus on any of the three sites mentioned so far.  I'm at a resolution
of 1600x1200, and the grey/white on black menus simply do not render well
enough to read.  On a "normal" (is there such a thing?) site, I can change
font size - may mess up the developer's concepts, but I can still see the
site, get a grasp of what was intended.  Can't do that with flash.  Know a
colour-blind guy that just leaves Flash sites - he can't do anything with
most of them because of contrast issues.

With something like 10% of the world colour-blind to some extent, and about
15% severely visually impaired (don't have reliable stats on this last
percentage), I just cannot see Flash as a viable entry page to a general
population commercial site, nor as a primary content container for the pages
of such a site.  Nice intro to a commercial animation site, though.

Make a good day . . .
. . . barn
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_______________________________________
From: Brian Andrews [bandrews@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
To: javascript@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Javascript] flash v dhtml
Time: 6/29/2001 at 10:50AM

A good example of a site that uses both DHTML and Flash. We even got Flash
and Javascript talking to each other.
    http://www.RiverRunSoul.com

I did the DHTML.


Brian.


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