Future Splash (WOW!)
Eric
Just downloaded free Future Splash demo, http://www.futurewave.com/ WOW,
streaming vector graphics on the web, check out
http://www.foxworld.com/simpsons/simpsons.htm and
http://www.msn.com/default.asp (seems like Microsoft has BIG plans for
it). Down load the Netscape Plugin or the Active X control. (about 80k)
This stuff impressed the hell out of me, fast, fast, fast, goodbye HTML,
hello Future Splash, try using right mouse button (built in zoom and pan),
again, WOW WOW WOW.
Kevin Van Sant
Yes FutureSplash is very cool, btw it was bought up by Macromedia and
is now called Shockwave Flash. I started using it on my pages when it
was still in beta several months ago. It is certainly not "goodbye
html" as you say though. Futuresplash can however be very
complementary in conjunction with standard html. If you care to see
what I have done with it check out these two sites.
http://www.pobox.com/~onestopjazz
and
http://nuteknet.com/cafeonline
-Kevin V
Yong Bakos
Eric wrote:
> Just downloaded free Future Splash demo, http://www.futurewave.com/ WOW,
> streaming vector graphics on the web
> This stuff impressed the hell out of me, fast, fast, fast, goodbye HTML,
> hello Future Splash, try using right mouse button (built in zoom and pan),
> again, WOW WOW WOW.
A few months behind the times, Eric?
John Dowdell
In article <3314b0d3...@news.mindspring.com>, kvan...@pobox.com
(Kevin Van Sant) wrote:
> On 26 Feb 1997 19:21:53 GMT, "Eric" <Er...@Wechood.Com> wrote:
>
> >Just downloaded free Future Splash demo, http://www.futurewave.com/ WOW,
> >streaming vector graphics on the web, check out
> >http://www.foxworld.com/simpsons/simpsons.htm and
> >http://www.msn.com/default.asp (seems like Microsoft has BIG plans for
> >it). Down load the Netscape Plugin or the Active X control. (about 80k)
> >This stuff impressed the hell out of me, fast, fast, fast, goodbye HTML,
> >hello Future Splash, try using right mouse button (built in zoom and pan),
> >again, WOW WOW WOW.
> >
>
> Yes FutureSplash is very cool, btw it was bought up by Macromedia and
> is now called Shockwave Flash. I started using it on my pages when it
> was still in beta several months ago. It is certainly not "goodbye
> html" as you say though. Futuresplash can however be very
> complementary in conjunction with standard html. If you care to see
> what I have done with it check out these two sites.
>
> http://www.pobox.com/~onestopjazz
> and
> http://nuteknet.com/cafeonline
Pretty... thanks for the links! (And I've got some Clifford Brown playing
right now, which is also pretty nice, thanks.... ;) If you haven't done
so already, Kevin, could you submit your site to the Shockwave Gallery,
please? Flash links are a bit on the light side right now but there will
be a redesign in March that will jump out to more sites... would be good
if others could see your design too. The form is at:
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/epicenter/galleryform.html
There's also a third-party mailing list for those developing with
Shockwave Flash, maintained by Sam Michel of the "Shocker" site... to
subscribe, send the following in the body of the message to
list-m...@shocker.com:
SUBSCRIBE FLASHER <your first name> <your second name>
Keep an eye out in upcoming days and weeks for more news, too... some neat
new capabilities are coming down the line.... ;)
jd
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D.G. Chichester
> Keep an eye out in upcoming days and weeks for more news, too... some neat
> new capabilities are coming down the line.... ;)
>
> jd
John, between all the postcards, message group question marks, and
associated nudge-nudge, wink-wink you guys have been playing, I think you
should change the name of the company to Macroteasia. <G>
Best,
DGC
Mariusz Margalski
Eric (Er...@Wechood.Com) wrote:
: Just downloaded free Future Splash demo, http://www.futurewave.com/ WOW,
: streaming vector graphics on the web, check out
: http://www.foxworld.com/simpsons/simpsons.htm and
: http://www.msn.com/default.asp (seems like Microsoft has BIG plans for
: it). Down load the Netscape Plugin or the Active X control. (about 80k)
: This stuff impressed the hell out of me, fast, fast, fast, goodbye HTML,
: hello Future Splash, try using right mouse button (built in zoom and pan),
: again, WOW WOW WOW.
I use Xwindows and it doesn't support Future Splash Animator classes. Is
it possible to run web pages with Future Animator graphics on XWindows?
Can I include in my WWW directory classes to support Xwindows?
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e-mail mm...@okwf1.okwf.fuw.edu.pl
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John Dowdell
In article <5fh6um$1...@h1.uw.edu.pl>, mm...@tempac.okwf.fuw.edu.pl
(Mariusz Margalski) wrote:
> I use Xwindows and it doesn't support Future Splash Animator classes. Is
> it possible to run web pages with Future Animator graphics on XWindows?
> Can I include in my WWW directory classes to support Xwindows?
I've (regretfully) kept most of the crosspost list because I'm not sure in
which newsgroup you actually read this... fwiw, best place for followup
conversations would likely be comp.multimedia, with
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html as second choice.
Most Netscape plugins are available for MacOS and MSWin flavors today, and
most ActiveX Controls are available for MSWin flavors. (There are more
Win95/NT extensions than Win3.1 extensions.) Because plugins use
platform-native code they have to be rewritten for each new operating
system.
(I hope the above rash generalizations are to everyone's liking! Flame for
exceptions if you wish, but that's the gist of the situation.)
For what it's worth, there are two emerging areas to look forward to in
the future:
-- FutureWave was working on a Java player for FutureSplash animations.
(Futurewave joined with Macromedia in January, and FutureSplash Animator
became Macromedia Flash.) The Java player will still be developed but
because current Java multimedia routines do not yet offer the performance
of native code, the beta Java player is not yet available. Still, in the
long term, more and more multimedia will be going to Java.
-- The general Shockwave technologies are also moving to Java, too. This
includes both high-level player technologies (as with the Flash player),
as well as low-level service technologies (as with the Fireworks classes).
These efforts will lessen the amount of platform-specific code needed.
Information on the general efforts are in the press release archive at the
Macromedia website... development is going well, and there will be good
general news soon.
Summary: No XWindows right now, sorry. MacOS and MSWin have the bulk of
these multimedia extensions. The general trend is towards increasing
platform independence.
Hope the above is of help!