Online photography/art "magazine"
P. J. Alling
webster26 at mindspring.com
Sat Mar 1 16:40:45 EST 2008
My favorite quote about flash is that it's a problem masquerading as a
solution.
Steve Desjardins wrote:
> I like your description of Flash as a bacteria that almost everyone has
> but only makes a few people sick.
>
>
>>>> Mark Roberts <msroberts01 at ysu.edu> 3/1/2008 2:51 PM >>>
>>>>
> Ira H. Bryant IV wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:37:26 -0500
>> Mark Roberts <msroberts01 at ysu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> When/if the Flash player launches, you'll be treated to
>>> <cough>expansive<cough> 350 x 400 pixel images, which you browse by
>>>
>
>
>>> clicking on the corners of each "page". Very non-intuitive
>>>
> navigation.
>
>> It looks like you can click anywhere on the page and drag toward the
>>
> middle of the "magazine." It's *slightly* less irritating to turn the
> pages that way, but flash things like this are annoying.
>
> Fortunately, you don't have to drag: Just click once at a corner and
> the
> "page" will "turn". Do you have the sound turned on for your computer?
>
> Every "page turn" is accompanied by the *sound* of a page turning.
> That's just embarrassing.
>
> I've just written a review of the site in my blog:
> http://www.robertstech.com/blog/?p=27
>
>
>
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