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DO you know this is now beyond a joke but has potential to be a real cult character and moneyspinner. Good luck
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Originally posted by BobShawadiwadi View PostPlease be lookings at my new YouTube Channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/BobShawadiwadi
New adventure story of Bob in England telling soon.
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You are the future Bob.
If I need any doings you'll be the first to know.
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Please be lookings at my new YouTube Channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/BobShawadiwadi
New adventure story of Bob in England telling soon.
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostI suspect the people that can't see the video can't because of some firewall or content blocking preventing external videos. Though it's possible they just don't have Flash installed, some people must not. However, browsers will detect what you need and install the plugin automatically.
Flash was a vector animation format, that's become a much more powerful system with a proper programming language, and the two don't always fit that well together. Whereas Silverlight seems to have been designed to be the latter from the start, much like a Java applet, which is probably good, but is less good for simple animations. I think it's unfortunate that Flash was mainly known for annoying web ads, and now has found a new lease of life as a video player, neither of which demonstrate 1/10th of what it's capable of.
To answer the question, I think the likes of Google insist on doing things the incredibly slow and painful way with HTML and JavaScript, and then have another twenty rounds with standards committees trying to bolt things onto HTML that they think might be useful.
Have a look at Brakes International's online ordering. It's a whole parts catalogue and ordering system done in Flash, which means the GUI looks good and is fast and respsonive, which makes such a refreshing change after using clunky HTML based GUIs. More of the web should work like this IMO:
http://www.brakesinternational.co.uk/
Although saying that, I gather you can implement Flash without paying for it, as long as what you want doesn't require any sophistication or programming. My Google Earth example wasn't a good one, as I believe they require you to install a rather hefty plug-in to use it.
Silverlight may be MS and browser incompatible?
We seem to be going backwards in the interactive web animation field.
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostSo what do commercial sites use when they want more than a gif or video provides, say for interactive or dynamic animation, e.g Google Earth? Do commercial sites assume everyone has a Flash player? We've seen at least two posters on here say they can't see the OP's animation. No doubt many people haven't a Java JVM installed these days either. Yes, you're right, I am behind the times a bit...What about Silverlight?
Flash was a vector animation format, that's become a much more powerful system with a proper programming language, and the two don't always fit that well together. Whereas Silverlight seems to have been designed to be the latter from the start, much like a Java applet, which is probably good, but is less good for simple animations. I think it's unfortunate that Flash was mainly known for annoying web ads, and now has found a new lease of life as a video player, neither of which demonstrate 1/10th of what it's capable of.
To answer the question, I think the likes of Google insist on doing things the incredibly slow and painful way with HTML and JavaScript, and then have another twenty rounds with standards committees trying to bolt things onto HTML that they think might be useful.
Have a look at Brakes International's online ordering. It's a whole parts catalogue and ordering system done in Flash, which means the GUI looks good and is fast and respsonive, which makes such a refreshing change after using clunky HTML based GUIs. More of the web should work like this IMO:
http://www.brakesinternational.co.uk/
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostYes, but what I was referring to was when all the original hype about Java started the common example was the silly penguin animation that showed what it could do. But Java for animation never happened in any significant way, because animated GIFs were simpler, smaller, faster and generally better. Looking at this website now I can see lots of animated GIFs, and some Flash, but not a hint of Java anywhere, and 99.9% of the web is like that and has been for donkeys years.
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostI was writing Java Applets long after the mid 90s. In fact hadn't even started back then. The Sun / MS bust-up probably dented the popularity of Java applets, perhaps terminally, though decent graphics (e.g. Java2D/3D) was also made a bit unfriendly for users too. Applets do way more than GIF's (and likely Flash for that matter) so GIFS are not really a valid comparison. I don't think Applets are quite dead, but they seem not to be as common as Flash these days.
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