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

[Branden Hall]

I'm sorry to hear about your crashes...  but honestly, Flash has only

crashed here on my laptop running NT server 3 times over the past 4 months

or so, usually when I leave the computer in suspend mode for long (NT server

HATES suspend mode on Dell I7Ks, beats me why)


You are correct in saying that you should crash-test for all of your

audience, however, due to Microsofts sabatoging of IE for the Mac, we

usually only develop for two families of browsers on the Mac, Netscape 3+

and Netscape 4+.  Hence most of the targeted machines are on the PC, IE 3+,

IE 4+, IE 5, NS 3, and NS 4. It simply makes more sense to do my Flash and

JS work on a win box. A lot of our graphic artists do use Macs, and since I

am officially in the creative services division, even my boss has a nice

shiny G4. However, they do the design, but its myself and other programmers

that actually make the websites work in the real world.  It would just plain

suck having to output a test HTML file and then run over to a PC to see how

it looks and works.  It doesn't make much sense to me...  Don't get me

wrong, Macs have far superior hardware in many cases, but I just can't work

on them.  Tis a moot point anyways, since as soon as there is a Flash dev

tool for linux windows is going down the hole for good! I can use Wine to

test all of the browsers I can think of!


-= Branden J. Hall

-= Multimedia Developer/Instructor

-= Fig Leaf Software




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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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