Flash has creative uses, the thing that's bad is it's so anti-open source.
Thor, when you first posted your State Fair photos, I couldn't save them without using a screen shot utility.
For a blogger it's nice to be able to make your own "press kit" from others' work, in terms of choosing the photos, details, or sounds. Flash makes it hard to do that.
With an HTML page, every part of your work can be copied, saved, distributed, mashed up... I like that aspect of it.
What Cory is talking about is knowing the creative limitations of Flash and if not flouting them, at least being aware that someone else designed the program a certain way and is only giving you creative wiggle room within the parameters of the program.
I prefer the GIFs, limited as they are, because they're savable and tweakable and no special software is required to view them.
Not to say I dislike work done in Flash, lots of people are doing great things with it.
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Thor, when you first posted your State Fair photos, I couldn't save them without using a screen shot utility.
For a blogger it's nice to be able to make your own "press kit" from others' work, in terms of choosing the photos, details, or sounds. Flash makes it hard to do that.
With an HTML page, every part of your work can be copied, saved, distributed, mashed up... I like that aspect of it.
What Cory is talking about is knowing the creative limitations of Flash and if not flouting them, at least being aware that someone else designed the program a certain way and is only giving you creative wiggle room within the parameters of the program.
I prefer the GIFs, limited as they are, because they're savable and tweakable and no special software is required to view them.
Not to say I dislike work done in Flash, lots of people are doing great things with it.
- tom moody 3-31-2006 3:01 am