October 9, 2006
CBC, a Linux Flash Fiasco
So a guy surfs the web, eh...
It seems that I have been getting rather peeved with Adobe as of late. They promised a Flash Player 9 for Linux, but waited to release a flash player 10, due... oh, I don't know... soon? So, most of the non-taken case studies now require Flash 8 or better and I'm not going back to the freakin' computer lab!!!
Let me comment on the methodologies of the CBC's flash web design. First up, please allow for a Flash 7 version! Second, Holy Schmoley! the page only caches in around 8K! (oh, forgot... non flash version). I noticed then that if you don't have the latest flash player, all is not lost you can still view the content which is powered by ColdFusion (Seton Hill also uses Cold Fusion for web development). The idea of integrating JavaScript to render the layout of the flash page is great. Many people argue that not every browser supports JavaScript (which is a blatant lie) or that JavaScript has some security issues (well, okay, but still, you should browse smart...). Many of the examples in the book look really good. They are nouveau and mod and that's the problem. The designer made the pages have no consistent layout and pretty much every page is pell-mell and there is no sense to it.
For anyone who browses a website, what if google made every page look strikingly different? Some would have content on the left, some it would be on the right, and even some may have the header and search form on the bottom. Would that work? No. Google would lose an audience. In web design you must implement at most, three standard templates all with similar layout and navigational rules. That is, links must appear in similar colors, if the sidebar is on the right, it should stay on the right, etc. The same thing applies to pages with flash.
Posted by EvanReynolds at October 9, 2006 10:55 PM
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