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To: David Hagerty who wrote (2412)	1/31/1999 2:53:00 PM
From: Nitrous	Respond to of 2675

From what I understand the www.eye4u.com company consists of two gentlemen from germany.A far cry from a multi million dollar corporation. Why not try www.gabo.com...he is a 19 year old fellow from the University of Puerto Rico. Also give this site a shot matinee.co.uk All I am saying ,being a cybersurfing addicted to the computer world type of person ,by far the most entertaining web sites are those that utilize flash & shock. I see macromedia as the future of the internet. It truly brings life to the www. Long MACR & staying long ~~~ All IMHO Nitrous

To: David Hagerty who wrote (2412)	1/31/1999 3:02:00 PM
From: Nitrous	Respond to of 2675

correction Gabo's homepage is as follows geocities.com

To: David Hagerty who wrote (2412)	2/3/1999 6:53:00 PM
From: John Dowdell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2675

Pure Flash can be used to duplicate the "Small Hands" effect, per the question by "David Hagerty" a few days back. That particular design wouldn't be a particularly graceful phrase for Flash work, though, because it would probably be approached by a series of buttons whose successive mouseover states show the title at increasing scales. If I had to duplicate that piece on a commercial site today I'd probably use Shockwave 6.01. This has the advantage over Flash of offering programmatic control over the width of the vector content, and the advantage over QT3 of a year's worth of distribution of the player, for a larger installed base. (It could also be done very nicely in Shockwave 7, but that Player has just entered distribution... I'd likely only use SW7 today for a showpiece or destination site.) "Can Flash allow the user to create music while moving things around?" No, Flash doesn't have draggable sprites -- some developers have given that effect, but it's not an innate feature of the tool. I'd use Shockwave for that. The "Exclaim" demo on that site would be easily accomplished in Flash 3, because you could use a movie clip for each of the letter's rollovers. Note that Shockwave 7 easily integrates any QuickTime 3 content... if you choose to use the QT3 delivery format (and so choose to require the QT3 system installation) then any such media can be readily hosted within a Shockwave shell. This offers additional benefits such as communication with JavaScript in the browsers, deeper interactivity, multiple media control, etc. (Rephrased, any QT3 effect can be used in Shockwave 7, on a system which has the SW7 Player and the QT3 system install.) Summary: Flash's benefits lie in the very small player size and the very fast startup in the page. Shockwave is currently in transition from a SW6 to SW7 distribution -- both offer much deeper interactivity and predictability, and the SW7 Player is the best technology available for clientside web applications. QuickTime is in transition from the 2.0 to 3.0 players, and the latter can offer some nice entry-level interactivity, at cost of larger installation size. All stream, with the deepest streaming control going to Shockwave. jd PS: Heya, Pete! :D