Official Firefly Website Relaunches
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UPDATED: Friday, September 20, 2002 18:08
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Originally posted by Ringwraith:
Thanks for posting the "bypass the main page" link, since my poor little Mac can't run Flash 6.
Why not? I've got a three-year-old (or thereabouts) iMac 400 with OS 10.1.5, and it runs for me. Very poorly, I'll grant you, but it doesn't take much for Flash to run very poorly.
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and what's the deal with Flash anyway? It doesn't really do a whole lot. I've worked with it, have created animations and such, etc, but it's not the be all and end all of web pages.
I know. I hate Flash. The effects you can generally create with it are horribly simplistic, and in spite of that they take way too long to load for anybody who doesn't have broadband (which is still the majority of us, last I heard). You're generally better off with some skillful HTML.
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That's cause this is an old 7200/75. 
Yes, I will be upgrading it.
Hey, I got it cheap and it runs very well!
For what I need it to do it works. Next year I'm getting a newer Mac, though I'm not sure what. Probably used but hopefully a late era G3 or something.
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Quote:Flash can be really cool for interactive multimedia sites. But yeah, it doesn't do anything for the Firefly site except make it less accessible. It seems obvious to me that the webmaster doesn't have a lot of experience, doesn't know much about HTML or Javascript, and is just hacking out a site with whatever tools s/he's been given.
Originally posted by Ringwraith:
Thanks for posting the "bypass the main page" link, since my poor little Mac can't run Flash 6...and what's the deal with Flash anyway? It doesn't really do a whole lot. I've worked with it, have created animations and such, etc, but it's not the be all and end all of web pages. Anyway....
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