Skip Intro |
Flash makes
great intros.
Lots of color and tasteful type and exquisite motion. The music is thrilling, too. Each of these intros is amazing and each is unique. They only have one thing in common. Every one has a button that says SKIP INTRO.Those two words carry a lot of weight.
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What’s up? |
The web is
outgrowing its eye-candy phase, and so must Flash
A website must be pretty to be viable, but it must be highly functional as well. Flash pros can’t get by on gee-whiz animation or cool interfaces. They’d better prepare to do some of the heavy lifting on the working web. Flash screens must interface with
XML provides a path to all of this.
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Don’t stop! |
Once you
connect your Flash code to the outside world, your scope is unbounded.
And so is the list of things to learn. In this book we learn a lot. We begin with Flash and XML. We study networking protocols and server scripting. We learn sockets and SQL and a few fancy XML dialects. We go on to achieve competence in many other related technologies - and put them together to build working web systems.
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Who are you? |
If
you are creative and you are technical, this book is for you.
Maybe you have a design background. Maybe you have computer science training.You’re happy with simple grey buttons. Your art is an elegant code design. You are ready to put Flash to work with all the web technologies you already know. This book was written by authors who approach it
from both angles.
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Why? |
We wrote this book
because it wasn't there when we needed it.
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Dov &
Jesse Jacobson |