Re: FLASH: Flash or DHTML

[John Dowdell]

If the goal is "What are good ways to present 500 JPEGs at various zoomed

sizes in a browser?" then yes, DHTML will do it too... Flash wouldn't have

an intrinsic advantage there.


(You'll get best payoff in Flash with vectors, although it can work with

sounds and pixels and interactivity too.)


If you're considering use of Flash as a navigational tool, then one way is

to have a viewing frame and a navbar frame in the HTML page. While Flash

doesn't have the concept of global variables and conditional branching, I

believe many designs can be made that represent visited areas as a separate

movie level which was once loaded in by a button.


If your navigation actually requires more than visited/unvisited, then you

can use the cookies and calculation of JavaScript to either drive

corresponding changes to normal HTML graphics, or to send messages to a

Flash movie about which frames to display.


Most big-image portfolios have been done with Director, particularly when

high production values are desired, although you can certainly show

portfolios in browsers these days in various ways too.


Summary: Could be a couple of ways to go, but I guess you knew that

already.... ;)


jd





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