Comments on: Flash, Flash, everywhere! http://cuinnovators.com/blog/flash-flash-everywhere/ At CU Innovators, we help credit unions, CUSO's, and service providers create meaningful products and services for their members and clients. Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:53:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mark http://cuinnovators.com/blog/flash-flash-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-233 Mark Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:49:04 +0000 http://blog.cuemployee.com/2007/08/09/flash-flash-everywhere/#comment-233 Matt, Great points. I haven't gotten into Flex, but I can definitely see it's benefits, especially (like I said earlier) in the arena of charts and data displays. I also think the "same across browsers" argument will become even more important as developers begin to look at technologies that can perform the "same across devices", providing a similar experience on both PCs and mobile devices. Any clue how Flash currently fares in the mobile space? Matt,

Great points. I haven’t gotten into Flex, but I can definitely see it’s benefits, especially (like I said earlier) in the arena of charts and data displays.

I also think the “same across browsers” argument will become even more important as developers begin to look at technologies that can perform the “same across devices”, providing a similar experience on both PCs and mobile devices.

Any clue how Flash currently fares in the mobile space?

]]> By: Matt http://cuinnovators.com/blog/flash-flash-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-232 Matt Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:25:33 +0000 http://blog.cuemployee.com/2007/08/09/flash-flash-everywhere/#comment-232 While Flash is becoming widely adopted (Adobe claims that it runs on 97% of browsers and evidence that I've collected on Google Analytics leads me to believe that this is pretty close), I think the real future for Flash is actually Flex- the open source Flash programming language Adobe has developed for software engineers. Flex charting is awesome- highly interactive and professional. The startup I'm working with made the switch from Java to Flex for our retirement planning applicaiton and we're not looking back. When we demo it, people are really impressed with the interface and the interaction that's allowed. It's a much more powerful way to gather information than a page that looks like a spreadsheet. When I work with the coders who have now effectively mastered Flex, I keep hearing them say "Man, Flex is awesome." They've become evangelists just like me. Flash is the future, because it's everywhere, it's media-rich and it behaves the same across browsers. While Flash is becoming widely adopted (Adobe claims that it runs on 97% of browsers and evidence that I’ve collected on Google Analytics leads me to believe that this is pretty close), I think the real future for Flash is actually Flex- the open source Flash programming language Adobe has developed for software engineers.

Flex charting is awesome- highly interactive and professional. The startup I’m working with made the switch from Java to Flex for our retirement planning applicaiton and we’re not looking back. When we demo it, people are really impressed with the interface and the interaction that’s allowed. It’s a much more powerful way to gather information than a page that looks like a spreadsheet.

When I work with the coders who have now effectively mastered Flex, I keep hearing them say “Man, Flex is awesome.” They’ve become evangelists just like me.

Flash is the future, because it’s everywhere, it’s media-rich and it behaves the same across browsers.

]]> By: Mark http://cuinnovators.com/blog/flash-flash-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-231 Mark Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:11:05 +0000 http://blog.cuemployee.com/2007/08/09/flash-flash-everywhere/#comment-231 As the co-creator of the now debunked Coop Crusader, I didn't want to let this go by without commenting on it :) I think the question at the heart of the post is a very good one, where does flash fit into the functionality of CU websites? When I look at where it fits into the functionality (and not marketing) of most of the websites out there, I see two functional trends: media and data graphing & analysis. The first is obvious. From YouTube to Pandora, almost everything that is audio or video on the web is powered by Flash. I don't see this fitting into website functionality very much, however with the rise of laptops with webcams and mics, it could create some uses in the "Contact Us" or "Help" areas. (Think instead of "Fill Out this form", "Click here and leave us a voicemail") I believe graphing and analysis provides some immediate opportunities. If you haven't recently, checkout Google Analytics. The way they are using Flash to represent data very clean, very useful, and very cool. Now I can imagine that a CU would have a ton of data to present to it's members if it thought the members would actually give it a second glance. Maybe using flash can provide just that. What do you think? As the co-creator of the now debunked Coop Crusader, I didn’t want to let this go by without commenting on it :)

I think the question at the heart of the post is a very good one, where does flash fit into the functionality of CU websites?

When I look at where it fits into the functionality (and not marketing) of most of the websites out there, I see two functional trends: media and data graphing & analysis.

The first is obvious. From YouTube to Pandora, almost everything that is audio or video on the web is powered by Flash. I don’t see this fitting into website functionality very much, however with the rise of laptops with webcams and mics, it could create some uses in the “Contact Us” or “Help” areas. (Think instead of “Fill Out this form”, “Click here and leave us a voicemail”)

I believe graphing and analysis provides some immediate opportunities. If you haven’t recently, checkout Google Analytics. The way they are using Flash to represent data very clean, very useful, and very cool.

Now I can imagine that a CU would have a ton of data to present to it’s members if it thought the members would actually give it a second glance. Maybe using flash can provide just that.

What do you think?

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