Noob Flash/Web Question
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When building a flash site, which version do you build it for? What's the flash player penetration? Should I bother learning AS3 when not all viewers have the latest flash player? How do you work around that? Should I learn AS2 instead since more people have older flash players?
What resolution do you build you site for a general audience? 800x600 or 1024x768 or something else?
- Meeklo0
depends on the site, but its pretty safe that if the site is for north america or europe that you can do it at 1024.
About flash, not sure.. are you doing something that can only be done in AS3? sometimes flash exports for previous versions, unless its really necessary to go overboard, I will play safe, always assume that most of your audience does not have the nice monitor you have.. :)
- redant0
AS3 the viewer can easily download the latest version when prompted to. 780 wide is still a good size for people who use 800x600 res, alot still do. Kind of depends on your audience. My 1 cent :)
- YAYPaul0
I usually export for flash 9. But I've done work in AS3 where it had to be exported in Flash 8 and the code still worked fine.
- redant0
its better to learn as3 since everything is going that direction and it's muy different (very) at least the basic stuff that I know.
- YAYPaul0
On top of what redant said, learning AS3 will introduce you to OOP which means you'll be set for learning PHP etc.
- fugged0
you can learn PHP without knowing any oop principles. It's actually a procedural langauge with oop support.
and +1 on AS3.
if you need stats on player penetration rates, look here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/pl…
- maximillion_0
player versions and browser sizes all depend on your market. if your marketing to designers chances are they will have the lastest player (or be willing to upgrade) and a nice res montor so you can go all out. if your market is yr gran and her buddies best play it safe with 800 and a lower fp. that being said you should go for OOP AS3 it makes alot more sense and as someone else said, you can use the theory with other languages like PHP.
some actionscript in AS3 will only run in the flash player 9 and this is true of other AS versions and player versions. so as long as you know your target player from the target market , you should know what actionscript you can or cant use. help (F1) will tell you the version of the payer you can use the AS for
- maximillion_0
its true what fugged said - you can learn PHP without knowing OOP and you can get alot done with it but when you do know OOP the speed at which you can create makes life easier
- Mick0
I'll be the only one voting for AS2 then ;)
IMHO AS2 is a much quicker learning curve if you're new to Flash. I'd almost think that a newbie Flash person will learn AS3 quicker if they start AS2, then find out the differences and learn AS3 after. It really depends on your abilities - most people I know get discouraged from Flash dev when they jump right in and try to learn AS3.
That's partly why Flash has a strong following - in the past the learning curve for designers was quite gentle. If Flash was brand new to the market with AS3, many designers would not have picked it up so quick. EIther way, learn within your abilities. If you're up for a challenge go AS3. If you want to ease in AS2 might be better.
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remember mobiles!