Have you ever imagined pushing the limits of merger between static content and the Flash platform together to enhance the value of website usability even more?
Well, this article written by Kevin Hale titled; Using Flash as an Animation Underlayer, from Particle Tree shows a promising future. If you’ve not seen it, you don’t know what you’re missing in the development of web industry today.
With the ability to communicate to a Flash file using the Javascript you will write in the <head> tags or an external Javacript file, the Macromedia team gave birth to more possibilities for a website when they released this new feature back then.
What you’ll see in their demo is how Flash could finally communicate with the web standards of today to add a more user friendly interface or interactivity of a website.
The current problem of a website user interface and forms sometimes is the availability of a guide. I’m not just speaking about the normally coloured asterisk people use to remind users there are fields required to fill in.
With this unique addition to your form or website in the future, we could probably make surfing for the elderly or less web-savvy easier. We’ll be able to provide a far better online service than before. There’ll be no need to advise them which needs to be done before the other.
The current setback found with this is the compatibility with the Safari browser. Kevin said that when the Flash layer is beneath the form element, the cursor tends to blink in pace when you select the field.
The other drawback is a minority when utilizing this with center fixed-width layouts because the Flash object takes its measures from the top left corner.
If you’re all hyped up to find out how this is accomplished, read the article Using Flash as an Animation Underlayer by Kevin Hale.
hmm, interesting find indeed! :) would try that out soon!