19th Nov 2004
Flash Forward
I’ve been working at Metaliq for a couple of weeks now, and am really enjoying it. The people and the project are great, and it’s a happy, energetic environment.
… And the Mission District (SF) is a very interesting place to work. arty techy down-and-out and up-and-in. There’s quite a blend of people and things going on. Sort of like the East Village, packed up and moved to California. Substitute burritos for pizza. The Barrista with fluorescent red hair rides a mountain bike on the Left Coast, and takes the subway in NYC. All bits of the same scene with tweaks.
So, surrounded by gurus of Flash, I’ll be taking the plunge into learning as much as I can about it. Yep.
I’ve dealt with HTML interfaces since.. hmm.. I think late 1993. They’ll never be as rich and expressive as a well-done desktop app. Nosiree. I’ll still do a lot of HTML when need be, but I must say that Flash has reached a point where I’m won over. There are certain things that bug me about it (like my mouse scrollwheel doesn’t affect a flash scrollbar, or I can’t have the browser search within the text of a .swf), but they’re really outweighed by What’s Possible.
And it’s that whole “What’s Possible” with Flash aspect that has me excited about the Web yet again (not that I have ever lost my enthusiasm in all these years, but now I see a large transition on the horizon)
