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Subject: RE: FLASH: Flash & eCommerce
From: Jason Brown
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 16:28:22 +0100

you could have a print button which runs an asp script on the server to
format a 'printer friendly' version out anyway - often you have to do this
in order to get viewable results anyway, so it's a bit of a non-issue

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Penne [digit8ratyahoo [dot] com (mailto:digit8ratyahoo [dot] com)]
Sent: 01 October 1999 16-12
To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash & eCommerce


Since customers often like to print their orders, if
you can't get MSIE 5 to properly print flash files,
this whole flash-ecommerce idea seems doomed to me. As
long as clients are prevented from printing the frame
they are on of the movie they are on, Flash is pretty
much relegated to entertainment and flying logo type
stuff, IMHO....

--- John Dowdell <jdowdellatmacromedia [dot] com> wrote:
> At 5:26 AM 9/30/99, valerie [dot] removilleatac [dot] com wrote:
> > Would you have some hints regarding which
> technologies can be
> > interfaced with Flash, to build back-ends of those
> shops, in
> > order to set up different level of eCommerce (with
> or without
> > payment by credit cards, with or without delivery
> track &
> > trace, with or without the backorder /
> cancellation options, ...).
>
> You're right... validation, order-processing,
> fulfillment and delivery,
> back-tracking of orders are all significant
> differences between various
> commerce systems. If you're evaluating backends,
> then those factors define
> some of the different niches.
>
> For the front end it's usually easier. Most all
> commerce systems use a
> basic browser mechanism. They don't care what
> browser you're using...
> they'll just listen for properly-phrased URL
> requests.
>
> Flash can use GET and POST just like browser forms.
> When played in a
> browser we can piggyback on their HTTPS encryption
> for secure transactions:
> http://www.macromedia.com/go/13931
>
> You'd need to know how to use Flash to send and
> receive data -- you'd need
> to have a good handle on Flash interactivity. You'd
> also need to be able to
> examine the types of requests the commerce server
> expects, and to replicate
> them in Flash... looking at URLs from browser
> samples can help. It's also
> possible that some systems may insist on a browser,
> although that's usually
> rare.
>
> Generally, the commerce server would not usually
> even know that it's Flash,
> rather than a browser, that's placing the order. The
> bigger variables are
> on the back end than on the front end.
>
> jd
>
>
>
>
>
> John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco
> CA US
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