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5 years ago ::
Dec 18, 2008 - 8:39AM
#171
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Isn't it just easy enough to partition X GB towards Windows OS?
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4 years ago ::
Dec 21, 2008 - 5:47PM
#172
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Being a Flash Developer by trade and a Mac user at home and at work, I feel WotC really missed the boat on these digital tools built for Windows. They're being short sighted. With the exception of the Character Visualizer & Virtual Table, they should be developing Adobe Air apps. Adobe Air applications are OS agnostic and will run on any OS, so long as the computer has the Flash Player installed. Windows, OS X, & Linux. Both the Character Visualizer and Virtual Table appear to require hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, so OS native applications are probably a better choice.
An added bonus to using Air: the D&D tools would stand a much better chance of looking super hot, provided they were well-designed! You have much more freedom in the layout & skinning of Air apps than you do with Thindows. From the screen shots I've seen thus far, the applications they are developing look like ass, circa 1998.
I guess while I'm at it, why is WotC getting into software development to begin with?
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4 years ago ::
Dec 21, 2008 - 11:35PM
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Being a Flash Developer by trade and a Mac user at home and at work, I feel WotC really missed the boat on these digital tools built for Windows. They're being short sighted. With the exception of the Character Visualizer & Virtual Table, they should be developing Adobe Air apps. Adobe Air applications are OS agnostic and will run on any OS, so long as the computer has the Flash Player installed. Windows, OS X, & Linux. Both the Character Visualizer and Virtual Table appear to require hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, so OS native applications are probably a better choice.
An added bonus to using Air: the D&D tools would stand a much better chance of looking super hot, provided they were well-designed! You have much more freedom in the layout & skinning of Air apps than you do with Thindows. From the screen shots I've seen thus far, the applications they are developing look like ass, circa 1998.
I guess while I'm at it, why is WotC getting into software development to begin with?
When Flash works 100%, or even 60% on x64 Debian, then we can talk. Flash has a lot of problems on x64 .nix builds, and has since 8. Flash is not a viable solution for all users at this point.
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4 years ago ::
Dec 22, 2008 - 8:32AM
#174
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Dec 12, 2008
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Thanks for the feedback Farmer42. Sounds like Flash is not a cure all. It would certainly fix the Windows v. Mac issue though, if not Linux. I stand by Adobe Air being a better strategy than their current one.
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4 years ago ::
Dec 22, 2008 - 9:05AM
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Thanks for the feedback Farmer42. Sounds like Flash is not a cure all. It would certainly fix the Windows v. Mac issue though, if not Linux. I stand by Adobe Air being a better strategy than their current one.
Not really. Since Flash 8, all OS's have had some problem or another with compatibility. For some reason, it isn't back compatible properly, so things coded for older versions of Flash don't necessarily work properly in 10. That's the ultimate problem with Flash and other web-based solutions. When a new version come out, there can be significant enough change in the languages to cause some problems with compatibility. HTML is actually worse than flash about this. If you know an older version of HTML and it get spliced with a newer version you can actually kill a browser because of the language conflicts.
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