Re: FLASH: Not all clients care about all platforms (and not all clients [or designers] are very smart, either)

[Frederico]

On 11/18/99 6:52 AM, John Brzys via

jbrzysperceptron [dot] com

, said:


>Actually it was more like "The macintosh OS does not do a very good job

>supporting these specific java applets and WebTV does not support them at

>all" These and the fact that there are several Word, Excel, and Powerpoint 

docs

>linked from the site. A simple VBScript or JScript detection will not make a

>difference here.


See, now here I go again thinking we're talking about Flash sites on this 

list! <w>


Silly me for thinking your reference to poor, or not necessarily poor, 

Flash implementation at Balthaser was somehow relevent to that 

conversation!


Certainly we can point the platform-task-specific-bias in both 

directions, e.g., I've built a few AppleScript/Mac-app-dependent sites 

that are effectively exclusionary of Windows.


Clearly your project has an object in mind that can safely ignore a 

variety of platforms, and isn't likely for general public/eccomerce 

functions.


Happy Thursday



Frederico


~If we all did the things we are capable of doing, 

    we would literally astound ourselves.~


             --Thomas A. Edison


What have you accomplished in this century? You've still got a year to 

go. . . regardless of the people who can't count the days in a calender.


Think Mystic




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