2 Camps for Flash Was: Just one "plug" for Flash

[Bradley Miller]

At 03:44 PM 3/19/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>There are two camps that everyone falls into with regard to Flash and some
>people fall into both depending on why they are on the Internet.
>
>
>There is the "Looking for entertainment so Flash is OK" camp.
>
>And then, there's the "Looking for content and useability so Flash is BAD"
>camp.

And there would be the "I don't know what I'm talking about and I'm 
spouting useless drivel I found in a book or online" camp.  *Sigh*    Flash 
allows you to do graphics, yes -- the career site I'm working on isn't 
about graphics.  It's about the user interface . . . which is stuff like 
"Joe Smuck trying to fill out a form and forgetting important 
information."  Or like Joe Smuck not liking to see all his info sorted one 
way and being able to click and re-order the data right on the spot -- 
never making a call back to the server for IT to restructure the 
HTML.  It's Joe Smuck going on a Linux/Mac/etc... and being able to use the 
site without a javascript error popping up.

Lumping all Flash work into "it's just eye candy and other crap" totally 
misses the power of the product and what it can do.  You'll remember, I 
mentioned that in Actionscript, you have a very powerful programming 
language.  You can do remoting services to talk to ColdFusion, .NET, Java 
(and through some home brew projects even PHP).  I can guarantee you that 
there isn't any "dancing bears" in my Flash based career site . . .