Alright, just bought Studio MX Pro for myelf (sick of waiting for work to do it). So, my first task is to redo this site 3 stages:
– plain that has CSS working in IE, Mozilla, Safari (Mac too)
– new design working in same platform & browsers
– Flash version for use in Central/Flash Panel/PDA’s
I still use the old Dreamweaver at work all the time, but it’d be nice to come home to the new one.
Reading Grant’s blog about the EULA stuff (<a href=”http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/000034.html”>original</a>, <a href=”http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/000036.html”>new findings</a>). Man, what a crock. Most of my clients, however, have custom written solutions. The scope of the projects are changing added with what I can now do in 7, resulting in more and more hybrid solutions because of time constraints; custom solutions take time, where as hybrid ones (using some Macromedia framework combined with my own components) are very cost efficient. I’ll admit there are some projects that where I’ve used existing components in MX, but the source code was included in those components, in the new ones, it’s against the law if I have modified them in anyway, which I do sometimes do to meet project requirements.
I’m not sure how much of this applies to the whole “dual” versions of Flash. Like, if you don’t own Flash Pro, you can still modify the base classes to get what you want to happen… I guess, not sure how it works, but sounds like sound reasoning on a way to protect the Flash Pro assets Flash normal users aren’t supposed to have.
Not having the ability to give out projects for those clients that require the “source” will be a problem for me, I’m sure in the future. Currently, most don’t know what the “source” really is anyway cause they don’t understand it, and if they ask can they modify the Accordion pane, and I say no because that’s the way Macromedia made it, but I can “suggest” how they themselves can modify it because if I do it myself and then give that modified code to them, it violates the EULA agreement.
Uh…no. Good to know, though, that Grant and Nigel are chatting about it. When the big, mature boys get together, I’m sure a comprimise will emerge.
Via <a href=”http://www.mediadiva.net/mt/”>her majesty</a>.
I’ve never been to Melbourne, but I heard from the peeps in Sydney it’s not as cool as Sydney, and the opposite from peeps from Melbourne. At any rate, assuming its’ a dessert, like parts of Nevada are, I guess one could envision themselves elsewhere, and then make a business practice that markets to that desire. “It sucks here, let’s buy some land far away from here.” Nevermind the land is inhospitable. Maybe you could sue NASA for leaving a footprint in your “Don’t Touch The Dust!” signed yard… in a crater. …wtf…
<a href=”http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/13/offbeat.moon.ap/index.html”>CNN</a>
Via <a href=”http://www.mediadiva.net/mt/”>her majesty</a>.
I could still kick their arse in Quake.
On the flip-side, I would love to have these “microelectrodes” implanted in my head so I could psyionically blast pop-ups away instead of manually having to hit CTRL + W on my keyboard.
<a href=”http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/13/offbeat.moon.ap/index.html”>CNN</a>