How to produce this kind of animation?
in [UK Mac]
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From: Woody on 26 Mar 2010 06:49 On 26/03/2010 10:37, Duncan Kennedy wrote: > In message <813gkjFi3iU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Woody > <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> writes >> On 26/03/2010 10:16, Peter Ceresole wrote: >> The problem is not flash per se, it is badly written flash, which >> sadly is not uncommon. >> > Now I would agree with that. I generally don't have a problem with Flash > on anything if it is written properly. My original Asus Netbook (Atom > processor / 1 GB RAM) runs most sites happily. > > I'm surprised so many Mac users are worried about Flash security! ;-) Very few people are worried about security. That is why 90% of email is spam sent from bot networks. -- Woody
From: Geoff Berrow on 26 Mar 2010 06:52 On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:16:13 +0000, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >I *think* there's a misunderstanding here. It seems to me that Geoff was >saying that his PC fans don't change speed *when he uses Flash*. Which >implies that Flash on PCs is more efficient, or more optimised, than on >the Mac. > >But I may be wrong, and I'm sure he'll be along himself to set us >straight as to what he meant. I love Macs, I don't want to get into a PC vs Mac argument but I've turned off the old noisy box and just have my new PC running. It's quite quiet. OK, I've got three iplayer windows open and three flash sites. Got my processor up to 60 - 80% but still can't hear any difference in fan speed. Maybe the processor fan is changing, but I can't hear it. -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker
From: Woody on 26 Mar 2010 06:57 On 26/03/2010 10:44, Chris Ridd wrote: > On 2010-03-26 10:09:19 +0000, Woody said: > >> On 26/03/2010 10:01, Chris Ridd wrote: >>> It seems like a waste of money to me to produce two versions of the same >>> website. >> >> Its their money. > > Yes, but it's *my* money that they want and if I can't use their site > because of the way they did it... But you can, they produced two sites, so one probably works for you! >> Mind you, not always a waste of money doing another version. I was >> doing a phone accessible version of my shop. Ideally I should be able >> to do the same by a clever use of CSS, but it turns out it is easier >> to write a version for the iPhone (or other phone) that works in a >> different way. > > No doubt, but that will depend entirely on how your site is constructed. > Something generated from some base data can be easily (heh) transformed > into another HTML format. Well, it is just a shop so effectively it is a wrapper around a database and there are a number of classes that handle accounts, addresses, shopping carts etc. The website does work on a phone just fine, but it is not the optimal experience. The graphics are bigger than they need to be, the buttons are smaller than would be optimal on an iPhone, the bit where you select the number of items is inconvenient with the way the iPhone does drop down menus. So I have got a copy of iWebKit which is a good kicking off point, and then done a few walkthroughs and mockups of how you actually want to buy things ideally from the phone, and it is actually quite different than a desktop. I have made a new smaller group of images for the main products, changed bit where you decide how many products you want to a function of adding to the cart (which is now a separate page, rather than just an add). > > Maybe their Flash files are all automatically updated by something. Unlikely, probably they just do it twice -- Woody
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 26 Mar 2010 07:41 On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:52:33 +0000, Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: >OK, I've got three iplayer windows open and three flash sites. Got my >processor up to 60 - 80% but still can't hear any difference in fan >speed. > >Maybe the processor fan is changing, but I can't hear it. Might just be locked at one speed - see my comments about BIOSes and drivers earlier. And in passing - one of the big differences in Flash across Mac and Windows, specifically for iPlayer and other h.264 applications, is that Windows lets Flash use any hardware decoder for h.264 that the graphics card might supply. Upshot is that running an iPlayer that takes 50% CPU on the Mac might take 1% CPU and 5% GPU on a PC. OSX doesn't give third-party browser plugins access to hardware. Cheers - Jaimie -- Is everyone acting like a solipsist in here, or is it just me?
From: Peter Ceresole on 26 Mar 2010 08:04
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > Upshot is that running an iPlayer that takes 50% CPU on the Mac might > take 1% CPU and 5% GPU on a PC. > > OSX doesn't give third-party browser plugins access to hardware. That was what I thought might be happening- although with no idea of the specifics, of course. -- Peter |