Flash Apps

As I sit here finishing a flash application for a community college’s online orientation, I can’t help but question my own work.  Flash if done right can be powerful.  The flash player provides excellent speeds for media presentations compared to JavaScript.  In some cases it can be fast and lightweight yet still preform a complex run time function that is  stable(compatible).  Specifically I would be refering to dynamic vector graphics animation as well as dynamic image manipulation.  Don’t get me wrong though, if they had asked me I would have stuck with javascript.  It is the future.  Check out my flash stuff and give me advice if you’d like.  I know it is lame but I only built the damn thing didn’t have much say in the content.  Didn’t want much say.  Knowing that people will have to use this makes it feel evil.

The app loads in an XML file then dynamically makes all the text.  Most of the content in these apps can be changed without having to re-author the swf.  They are currently thrown together roughly and may be partially incomplete, as the deadline approaches they will become more presentable, less disconnected.

http://online.sbcc.edu/support/orientation/