Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Robert D. Baron writes: > George Hartzell writes in pertinent part: > > > I'm not sure that I'm vehement about it, but I have a couple of > > problems with flash: > > <snip> > > > It's still possible though that someone important out there might > > not be able to see your stuff. > > Do you mean if someone does not have a Flash program installed on their > computer they will not be able to see my photographs at all? > > I am thinking for example of my 84 year old aunt in Texas who uses aol > to exchange family news and pass jokes around with friends and relatives > all over the world. > > I find it hard to understand why Adobe Lightroom would offer me the > opportunity to create a gallery of my photos and put it up on the web in > a format (if that is the right word) such that people like my aunt (or > you, working in FreeBSD) could not access to see the photos. > > But, as noted, there are a lot of things about computing I don't > understand, which is why I asked this question (and a lot of others) and > I appreciate your response, which is helpful. > > [...] Yes, if someone doesn't have the various bits and pieces installed and enabled that are required to display flash content then they won't see anything. I don't know whether or how well AOL supports flash, so I can't address your aunt. "Most", for some very large value of most, computers have flash installed and enabled, so using it to deliver content isn't crazy. On the other hand, "most", for roughly the same size most, people use Internet Explorer on Windows, but reasonable people still think that it's important to build web pages that work across multiple browsers and operating systems. As to why Adobe LR offers you the opportunity, I'm sure it's a combination of the cool things that you can do with flash galleries that you can't do any other way and the fact that Adobe's customers' requested it. Probably doesn't hurt that Adobe owns the flash technology these days. I think that they're talking about doing the same things with flash that they did with PDF files, opening &/or standardizing the format so that others can play too. Not sure of that though. g.