At 4:22 AM 5/1/3, Tom Irish wrote:
> From the admittedly little I've had time to read, it almost sounds
> like it's time to kiss html and the W3C goodbye ....

No, marked-up hypertext is still great for documents, and a document
browser still makes it easy to jump promiscuously among documents.
Macromedia Central promises to help make it easier to work with net-aware
applications, to do things, instead of just look at things, whether online
or off.


> Perhaps it's just me, but I'm feeling a definite shift in the
> works and it's making me a wee bit uncomfortable.

Please don't feel uncomfortable... after rapid expansion in the mid-90s,
there have been a few year of contraction but things have been shifting
behind the scenes and there's a lot of built-up potential starting to
manifest again now. New options.



At 7:20 AM 5/1/3, Daiv Mowbray wrote:
> So- my advise - as an independant , or small shop-
> watch the community and activity related to new tools
> know the options and functionality of the tool
> then sell a product or service which uses this tool

I'd go along with that... it costs little to track a new technology, and to
be aware of what others are doing with it. You don't have to get
under-the-hood with something unless you see a clear advantage to yourself
in doing so.

jd





John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco
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