Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan I can understand your concern about installing additional plugins on your computer. No one likes to tinker around just to see one new site. But as I happen to be a flash designer since it's beginnings in the mid-90ies, I have a few arguments for flash. Flash gives the designer much more possibilities for creative output than html/dhtml, for instance free choice of typography, animation and sound features, powerful scripting, and many other things - all in one tool. Designing with html is like shooting a sport event with a wooden plate camera. Flash would be the dslr camera in this comparison. I admit it has has several inconveniences too, like the required plugin, or simple things like anchor-linking or screen-scrolling that need labourous additional programming. I agree that for a simple photogallery, html or php is my choice, too (I'm still tinkering on mine with php). Nevertheless you can easily downlod the flash 7.2 player here: http://tinyurl.com/4jw It's 400KB only and does not require a restart of your computer nor install any spyware. See my newest flash work for instance, Lee Cooper Jeans Switzerland http://www.leecooper.ch/d.php, with draggable semitransparent windows (drag the little red LC squares), mp3-player, background animations, analog clock, color/denim-selector - forget this with html. This client paid a lot of money to have something that looks as good as the swiss Levi's site. I hope he got it. With a html-only site this would be rather impossible. To stop unwanted Flash ads on websites I have the web developer toolbar for Mozilla/Firefox which offers a big "Kill Flash" button. Doesn't kill always, but mostly. Find it here http://tinyurl.com/e3z5a Cheers Didier > I cannot get past the initial "Enter Site" screen. It just gets stuck with > the "Loading Photos" message. I suspect it has something to do with me not > having the latest version of the flash plugin. So this means that I will > not see your photos, since I will not go to the trouble of installing new > stuff on my computer to look at a site. Sorry. > Nathan >> http://www.alvarosendon.com