Re: Director, platforms (was: One PSD)

At 1:41 PM 6/10/99, L. J. Durham wrote:
>Currently I work in my studio at home with a Mac 9600 -- I have
>Director Studio 6 and I do desperately want to upgrade to 7. But I am
>also going to be buying a PC soon... Considering the cost of Director
>Im thinking Im better off doing the upgrade on the mac side but since
>Im looking at the PC to have all the web development tools including
>Dreamweaver Im kind of between a rock and a hard place....
>Any thoughts?


If you're wondering which one platform to upgrade then a lot would depend
on what you'll be wanting to do.

If a goal is to create self-contained applications then I'd definitely
recommend working on the delivery platform yourself. (ie, if you'll be
making standalone Projector .EXEs for PCs, then working on a PC yourself is
easiest... ditto if your audience is only on Macs.)

If you'll be designing files for display in browsers, though, then you have
a little more leeway because browsers don't allow as much manipulation of
the machine. If you're creating Shockwave applets then you can create on
whichever platform you're most comfortable, and regularly test the work in
various browsers on "the other platform".

(Rephrased, for-the-browser work is platform-independent, but
standalone-application work interacts more with the operating system.)

I assume that your various machines are networked together... this is
essential for testing even pure HTML pages. You should be able to send most
media assets back and forth on your network without incident.

I'm not sure if this is along the lines of what you were looking for...?

jd




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