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Macromedia Flash Interview question

  • 16-08-2006 12:03AM
    #1
    Nalz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,158 ✭✭✭✭


    okay apols if I should have posted this elsewhere, but wanted the software engineers point of view on this

    What (if you were asked in an interview) would be disadvantages/advantages of using macromedia flash, and what/where would you use it the most?

    thanks

    Trilla


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  • #2
    PhantomBeaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭PhantomBeaker


    Personally, my take on the pros and cons are:

    pros: It's available on a lot of platforms. (However see cons)
    * Small deliverables.
    * Vector graphics, means that non-bitmap stuff can scale really well, up to huge sizes.

    cons: Actionscript (at least for version 7) is a pain - their debugger was uber-unhelpful, its answer to everything was "There is an error". I found that less than helpful.
    * It's a closed standard. If Adobe want to change everything, they can.
    * It's now very windows-centric (not that it already wasn't), but when it was owned by Macromedia they threw non-windows users a bone and supplied linux versions of flash. However, the last version they did that with was version 7. So if you want to write anything multiplatform, you write in version 7, see YouTube and Google Video.

    But that's just off the top of my head, I don't use Flash too much.

    Aoife


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