Re: FLASH: Flash making QuickTime--why so little support and development?

[John Dowdell]

At 12:16 PM 5/2/0, Phillip Kerman wrote:

> The first time I saw the Flash layer in QuickTime I thought it

> was pretty cool... but that was a long time ago and to date,

> I've seen no significant documentation, support, or advancement

> for this feature.


Well, I'd say that's true... it's sort of like other cross-company work

like WebTV, or the RealPlayer, or Shockwave in Visual Basic, or Tango in

Dreamweaver. A group does development to enable it, but it's hard for

either company to "own" it and be responsible for its use, because it's a

cross-technology issue.


Myself, I've put Flash-in-QT work on my list of things to study for other

folks, but it's necessarily not as high on my list as pure Macromedia

things, and lawd knows I'm behind on that as it is. (The new imaging Lingo

in Director 8 alone requires much more time than I've been able to give it

so far.)


Other folks in tech support specialize in Flash, but even then it takes

awhile to sort out the third-party connections... making chatrooms in Flash

or connecting to databases are probably higher than advising on the various

QuickTime connections.


As far as current live issues, I've seen some posts saying that

some-but-not-all browsers sometimes show problems with some-but-not-all

transparency in some-but-not-all SWF-enhanced QT, but I haven't locked it

down to a concrete symptom description yet, much yet a steps-to-repro or

(the grail!) hidden cause. Other than that the most frequent post is people

wanting to play video in the Flash Player.... ;-)


Is there any particular area you'd like to see advanced, particularly one

that could be driven by Flash development alone...?


tx,

jd






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