RE: FLASH: How does Flash 4 Magic compares to Flash Web Design?

[Jason Bouwmeester]

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From: Tom Green [tgreen17home [dot] com (mailto:tgreen17home [dot] com)]

>Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 1:28 PM

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>Subject: FLASH: How does Flash 4 Magic compares to Flash Web Design?

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>Gimme a break on that observation. For months I have been screaming for an

AS

>book that explains what you are doing and why. Flash Magic fails,

abysmally, on


Well I guess I been told... missed the boat on that one. However, I do come

from a strong programming background and I find F4M a good resource to have

a look at the code and try to modify it for my needs. Sure anyone can sit

down and type away to get the same code, but I didn't buy this book for

that, and the book has a Modifications section at the end of each chapter

suggesting ways that one can adapt the code. I don't think the authors

intended the book to be a "type out our code and use it and learn nothing

book".


>Finally, you can't compare Hillman's book to this one. Different beasts. If

>someone were to write an AS book that used the FLash 4 Magic approach of

project

>based technique that started small and worked up to complex, then that and

>Hillman's works would be a fdynamic one-two duo.


I didn't compare the two - Hillman's is definately Design oriented and I am

sorry but I do find the code examples to be nothing out of the ordinary. But

I bought the book for the design aspect and the streamlining hints it has

throughout.


>The book is full of lots of technique and nothing else. Sorta like those

sites I

>"dis" on a semi-regular basis.


Sounds like you do a lot of dissing of sites and books that you find to be

not fullfilling. Why don't you write the AS book that would be a dynamic

one-two duo with Hillman's book?


Like Todd Purgason said at FF2K: "Design is an opinion" - welp what books I

find useful is an opinion as well...


jb



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