RE: FLASH: OT: Design computer configuration---under $3500.

[Torbjørn Caspersen]

Just some comment on that Branden.

Certainly 90% of internet users browse with pcs, but to rely on that when

designing is dangerous. Most of our customers (we're an ad agency) wants

pretty far reaching compatability and that means v 3.0  browsers etc.

Designing for IE can yield strange results on NS 3.0. The point is: design

on whatever system suits you, you should crashtest for a number of other

browsers anyhow.


Flash and NT: God, it sucks. Under NT, Flash crashes regular as clockwork

with most Postscript type 1 fonts. That's a total pain which I hope is

fixed with W2K.


I've also noticed that NT outperforms Macos when running flashes - don't

know why. Sad though for an old macsupporter...




Plus, for web work, I need a PC. Period.  90+% of the audience I develop

for

are on PCs, and it just makes sense for me to be able to see exactly what

they will.  Besides, right now there is only one *adequete* browser for

the

Mac (Netscape) and its horribly out of date.


Finally, on a purely Flash standpoint...  when I develop in Flash I am

always on either NT or Win98... My actionscript heavy movies run *fine* on

my machines... but I bring it over to a Mac, and they crawl, even on G4s.

I

don't know why, but I have never seen Macs outperform a PC in playing

actionscript heavy flash.


Here's a dollar, I believe my change is 98 cents... :-)








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