RE: Jan 9 Agenda

 Marjolein Katsma

> Yes, indeed as I noted, it's more techniques than guidelines. 
> I also noted
> that the examples did not themselves have alternative content 
> :) (But then
> that was not what the examples were illustrating, at least 
> not the ones I
> stumbled over.)
> 
> While one could classify the whole exercise as "too little, 
> too late," I'd
> rather see it as "better late than never". It may not be 
> perfect, and they
> don't have all the terminology straight. OK, so they're still 
> learning, but
> they are making an effort, and the current result is at least 
> useful for
> Flash developers. Much better than nothing, in my view.
> 
> I would suggest we refer to it, rather than including it. We 
> could add some
> sort of qualification, too (not complete, good starting point?).
> 
> Platform-specific guidelines? I don't think so; technology-specific
> guidelines (rather, techniques!) would be more to the point - 
> comparable to
> guidelines / techniques for SMIL; it is another 
> multimedia-presentation
> technology, after all.

Susan Morrow, Marketing manager at Macromedia, came to a pf meeting in
Washington 
recently.

Wouldn't it be nicer if we could advise her on improvements to 
her 'guidelines'?
She seemed more than willing to listen and learn.
I get the impression that they really are trying, but like lots of us,
there's a lot to learn.

Regards DaveP

Received on Monday, 15 January 2001 10:13:45 UTC