Re: FLASH: Flash & eCommerce

[Michael Penne]

So let me get this straight, your saying that MS

random breaking of a previously supported feature of

the .swf format is simply a business opportunity for

those with 'full site development skills' in your

view? Futhermore, 'how fairly' and 'how simple' a fix

this is obviously depends on how much information was

formerly printable in the .swf format, how much

running these new scripts will impact server

performance and download time. Elsewhere, I spend a

good deal of time promoting and justifying the use of

Flash, thanks, and the former ability of the client to

print exactly and EASILY (without having to click a

button, open a new window, wait for an often dog slow

.asp or .pl script to run) what they saw on the screen

was once one of the benefits of swf, and one I frankly

hate losing.


My problem is that a site which was done, signed,

sealed, delivered, now no longer works as it did, and

now needs more work to fix the problem with printing.

As far as using .swf as an e-commerce format, I think

that it will not be ready until MACR can assure

developers that the next upgrade in MSIE will not

randomly break previously supported .SWF features.  


--- "Russell E. Unger" <

rungerzaxcoms [dot] com

> wrote:

> Michael...

> 

> Not to offend, but it seems like your "full site

> development" skills may not

> be up to those types of tasks; these types of

> challenges exist in every-day

> consultancy firms and in a lot of our own freelance

> lives.  It's fairly

> simple to create an "include" file that does the

> javascript for you

> once--simply pulling it from a static file and

> dropping it into place when

> needed.

> 

> I'm not going to go much further into it, but it's

> not a terribly detailed

> process and it's happening all over the place. 

> There's always more than one

> solution, and someone always has a much better

> solution than the one I think

> of.  It just happens that way.

> 

> I think you're just failing to see all the

> possibilities and writing off a

> tool too quickly.

> 

> Kind regards,

> 

> Russ

> Michael Penne wrote:

> 

> > And so you would like to make javasript (assuming

> MS

> > doesn't break that next) windows for every section

> of

> > the site the customer would like to print? Lots of

> > people like to print out product info, warrantee

> info,

> > etc. from sites to discuss, ponder, or just

> > because...sort of seems like a problem to me, I

> dunno.

> >

>

> --- Branden Hall <bhallfigleaf [dot] com> wrote:

> > > Thats really not as much of an issue as you

> would

> > > think.. .since its very

> > > possible and very easy for an experience

> Flash/JS

> > > programmer make a

> > > javascript pop-up that has their order in

> plain-text

> > > for the user to print

> > > out.  Personally I look forward to flash-based

> > > ecommerce sites.

> > >

> > > -= Branden J. Hall

> > > -= Web Developer / Instructor

> > > -= Fig Leaf Software

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> >

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