Re: Entire site in Flash?

by "Mike Burks" <mburks952(at)worldnet.att.net>

 Date:  Sat, 15 Aug 1998 23:25:43 -0400
 To:  "jayse" <jayse(at)earthlink.net>,
"David Meadows" <david(at)goldenheroes.softnet.co.uk>
 Cc:  "Chris Allermann" <cwa(at)webspan.net>, "Luke Opperman" <luko(at)rocketmail.com>, "hwg-theory" <hwg-theory(at)hwg.org>, "Anita Adendorff" <xerxes(at)ntx.co.za>, "Kristi Shahid" <KShahid(at)pointbinc.com>
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All,

I strongly recommend you take a look at www.useit.com.  I think you will
find some things of interest there.

Sincerely,

Mike Burks
-----Original Message-----
From: jayse <jayse(at)earthlink.net>
To: David Meadows <david(at)goldenheroes.softnet.co.uk>
Cc: Chris Allermann <cwa(at)webspan.net>; Luke Opperman <luko(at)rocketmail.com>;
hwg-theory <hwg-theory(at)hwg.org>; Anita Adendorff <xerxes(at)ntx.co.za>; Kristi
Shahid <KShahid(at)pointbinc.com>
Date: Saturday, August 15, 1998 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: Entire site in Flash?


>>What does your HTML site say? "Sorry, but you can't see what I
>> want you to see. Go somewhere else"
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>Or the HTML site could say, "Go away! You and your lousy browser ain't
>no good here! Ya browsing lowlife!"
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>8)
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>But really...
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>what the HTML counterpart is - just a version stripped of it's glory -
>sometimes. Rather like a plaintext version of a site that also has a
>high bandwith graphics version.
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>The search engines can search it - and the people without Flash can use
>it for it's info.
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>Sites made only to present Flash content - like Gabocorp's - tried the
>plain version, but like you say... WHY?? (He later scrapped the HTML
>version.)
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>Works for other sites though that are struggling for the 'best of both
>worlds'
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>8)
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>Hope it helps!
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>~ jayse
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>David Meadows wrote:
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>> Chris Allermann <cwa(at)webspan.net> wrote:
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>> >[...] ...but if you do
>> >decide to go a site entirely in flash I would be sure to have a plain
>> HTML
>> >counterpart.
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>> Pardon me for being slow on the uptake here, but if it was possible to
>> do your site in plain HTML then why would you use Flash in the first
>> place?
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>> I assume you use Flash because you are illustrating something which can
>> only be properly represented in Flash, otherwise why bother? In which
>> case you could never get your content across on your HTML version of the
>> site. What does your HTML site say? "Sorry, but you can't see what I
>> want you to see. Go somewhere else"
>>
>> --
>> David Meadows [ Technical Writer | Information Developer ]
>> DNRC Minister for Littorasy * david(at)goldenheroes.softnet.co.uk
>> "Is not this the most reprehensible form of ignorance,
>>  that of thinking one knows what one does not know?"
>>       -- Socrates

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