Flash is great, all platforms should have it!

[sdesros]

I have a love/hate relationship with Flash.

I think in a lot of cases Flash is not used properly.

I reallllllly detest going to a website and the first thing I see is this fancy flash anim that really doesn't help me get to any of the information I want from the site.  Yes, there are skip buttons, but if "skip" is the first thing I press then WHY bother putting it up.  You also just end up annoying everyone else that might visit your site more then once.

Sites that are perhaps competely programmed in flash leave other problems.  You can't bookmark a page and passit around.  Everyone is stuck having to load up the flash, click on the buttons, etc (unless each "link" brings up another flash anim causing the user to wait for it to load everytime they click on a button.)

With that said, Flash has great uses especially for short interactive (ie:games) or longer non-interactive presentations (ie: anims).

I've used the flash player that came with the version of Voyager on MOS1.3 .  It works fairly well although I can't get sound, it seems to lockup voyager when I quite after viewing a flash anim.  I'd be certainly happy to have access to an updated and crash-proof flash player, but personally I would want more things before.  (Considering I make my living as a Java devoloper, I would prefer getting a JVM myself, but we all have our own preferences. )

[sdesros]

by Darth_X on 2003/7/12 9:21:45

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sdesros wrote:
(Considering I make my living as a Java devoloper, I would prefer getting a JVM myself, but we all have our own preferences. )

Are there still opportunities for decent paying jobs programming in java?

Yes there are.  Although a lot of companies are not exactly on a hireing spree.  I'm not sure about Vancouver, but in Toronto, you'll need to be proficient with Enterprise Java Beans and assorted e-commerce centric technologies.  In Ottawa, it's pretty much all Telecom, and you're usually stuck with EMS and NMS software (JNI, RMI, CORBA being what you should look into).  If you're in Montreal, then you can look into Multimedia (I would gather they'd more aim towards Flash there. )...