Re: flash v thingmaker

[Dave Smith]

Stephen Britton wrote:

> 

> On Tue, 12 May 1998, Jason L. Fritts wrote:

> 

> > Just curious to know what everyone's opinions are regarding ThingMaker

> > (http://www.thingworld.com).



> I would say that ThingMaker is a closer cousin to Director than Flash. And for $99 it

> is a steal,


hiya Stephen,


If your a serious web designer and want to make a livelyhood at it dont

waste your

time for anything more than what is showing to be standard. You'll be

wasting alot more

money in your time than in the "steal" you think the underdog is

providing.


In the world of internet application there are no underdogs for long.

Like mother nature only

the strong survive and I think you can ask anyone on the list who

designs for the web that when

your gambling on technology that especially requires a plug-in, you

better have called your cards

right. 


Vector animation is pointing toward a standard and even though Flash is

still a gamble in my eyes,

it still rocks anything else out there that provides the same

capabilities.


Dir is a whole 'nother story. Bottom line is, IMHO, that flash is geared

more toward interactive navigation and creative interface design,

instead of director which is geared more toward gaming and object

controlled enviroments. Director simply has not presented itself as a

web standard simply because of access technology.

We are still in a 28.8 world and if someone wants to play games they're

not gona wait around for a 500kbs

file to load instead of sticking a cd in the puter and spend there time

playing something mush more dynamic.

Not enough at least to get the attention of serious clients.


Internet is geared toward navigtion and this is what Flash does best and

why its gotten so much hype,

not to mention the streaming capabilities and open file access.


It itself is still a gamble, but more clients are getting interested in

it quicker than anything else.


To invest your time in anything else like it would be a much greater

gamble.


I hate to say it, but in the world of online the ole saying "If you cant

beat 'em join'

'em is irrelevant. Simply be the first to hop on the bandwagon and

master the technology.


Thats one reason when I came from traditional illustration to digital

design I bought a PC.


even though Mac has much simpler interface and has come from standard

use of designers, it simply has not 

prevailed over Wintel which now carries all Adobe software and much more

proggys to assist it.


No insult to mac users but most can agree when it comes to a "unifying"

standard on a global network theres

not many winners, only loosers. It sucks but its true.


Think more about your own future instead of companies doomed for

failure.


Because in internet application theres only a few beasts on top of the

food chain.

and they eat, boy do they eat!


-DG-


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