26 January 2006
Back up. Stop. Reconsider. I needed a new strategy to help people see Macromedia Flash 8+ movies. My new movies use beautiful drawing features of Flash version 8. Older Flash plug-ins play the movies without the new colors and shapes, so they look like ghostly caricatures of themselves. But the user doesn't know. Flash detection is to write the page code to try to trap non-8 users. Flash detection fails if it doesn't cover all possibilities and will fail over time as it becomes outdated. The only sure way is for you, the user to compare content. I ask if the movie contains colors and shapes like a sample. I put this page up front, here, as an introduction to the series of Elobeing element traces. I plan to embed this test within the movies themselves.
It is sad that some people can't get the plug-in, although it is free and easy to install. For example, my public library. It doesn't enable librarians to do this simple task. It hires an outside consultant, who apparently does not respond to user requests and doesn't see the value inherent in upgrading software that comes installed on the new computer. My choice is for the long run. In a few years, this content will be fully supported, and even ancient history.
The Visions poster is for a class held almost 30 years ago. "Come, have, and record visions", was the call. They came and did -- here are eight student works. I was amazed, delighted, inspired, and deeply encouraged that given a focused context, the intention to envision is so fruitful.
