for an example. This site is 100% flash music portal site in japan, and the front end is totally dynamic and can be changed on the fly or personalized for indidual users. Many of the standard techniques for modifying content can be applied, although there are some changes you may have to make regarding dataformat, etc.
Sonybank japan also has 2 online-only banking applications that have all-flash front ends (including an interface chock-full of cute little characters who help keep you on the path to saving money).
I don't know if the online demo is available but the real application is functioning and online if you have an account.
sorry, there are no english versions.....
the cute version...
http://moneykit.net/postpet/index.html
the serious version...
http://moneykit.net/
Haveing worked on some of the front end flash code for these sites i can attest that is is possible to build Real, Full Featured Applications with a
100% flash front end and a J2EE backend, and to do it in a way that promotes reusable code and provides a clean seperation between the
"prettiness" of the visuals and the underlying display logic. I am a developer, not a designer, but Flash lets me create powerful UI components that look incredibly ugly, and then let a designer make them look pretty without having to worry about them breaking the underlying code. When you couple that with backend technology like java and a database you can make very slick apps that work pretty much identically on any browser that has the plugin.
I think that if macromedia wants to succeed they need to work very hard to port the player to as many platforms/browsers as possible, because the plugin is the barrier for the average user, followed by bandwidth (and poor site design). I think that macromedia could get a big win in this area by open-sourceing the plugin and letting the community at large port it to all their favorite platforms.
for an example. Sonybank japan also has 2 online-only banking applications that have all-flash front ends (including an interface chock-full of cute little characters who help keep you on the path to saving money).
I don't know if the online demo is available but the real application is functioning and online if you have an account.
sorry, there are no english versions.....
the cute version...
http://moneykit.net/postpet/index.html
the serious version...
http://moneykit.net/
Haveing worked on some of the front end flash code for these sites i can attest that is is possible to build Real, Full Featured Applications with a 100% flash front end and a J2EE backend, and to do it in a way that promotes reusable code and provides a clean seperation between the "prettiness" of the visuals and the underlying display logic. I am a developer, not a designer, but Flash lets me create powerful UI components that look incredibly ugly, and then let a designer make them look pretty without having to worry about them breaking the underlying code. When you couple that with backend technology like java and a database you can make very slick apps that work pretty much identically on any browser that has the plugin.
I think that if macromedia wants to succeed they need to work very hard to port the player to as many platforms/browsers as possible, because the plugin is the barrier for the average user, followed by bandwidth (and poor site design). I think that macromedia could get a big win in this area by open-sourceing the plugin and letting the community at large port it to all their favorite platforms.
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check out
http://cavex.avexnet.or.jp/index.jsp
for an example. This site is 100% flash music portal site in japan, and the front end is totally dynamic and can be changed on the fly or personalized for indidual users. Many of the standard techniques for modifying content can be applied, although there are some changes you may have to make regarding dataformat, etc.
Sonybank japan also has 2 online-only banking applications that have all-flash front ends (including an interface chock-full of cute little characters who help keep you on the path to saving money).
I don't know if the online demo is available but the real application is functioning and online if you have an account.
sorry, there are no english versions.....
the cute version...
http://moneykit.net/postpet/index.html
the serious version...
http://moneykit.net/
Haveing worked on some of the front end flash code for these sites i can attest that is is possible to build Real, Full Featured Applications with a
100% flash front end and a J2EE backend, and to do it in a way that promotes reusable code and provides a clean seperation between the
"prettiness" of the visuals and the underlying display logic. I am a developer, not a designer, but Flash lets me create powerful UI components that look incredibly ugly, and then let a designer make them look pretty without having to worry about them breaking the underlying code. When you couple that with backend technology like java and a database you can make very slick apps that work pretty much identically on any browser that has the plugin.
I think that if macromedia wants to succeed they need to work very hard to port the player to as many platforms/browsers as possible, because the plugin is the barrier for the average user, followed by bandwidth (and poor site design). I think that macromedia could get a big win in this area by open-sourceing the plugin and letting the community at large port it to all their favorite platforms.
-mike c
check out
http://cavex.avexnet.or.jp/index.jsp
for an example. Sonybank japan also has 2 online-only banking applications that have all-flash front ends (including an interface chock-full of cute little characters who help keep you on the path to saving money).
I don't know if the online demo is available but the real application is functioning and online if you have an account.
sorry, there are no english versions.....
the cute version...
http://moneykit.net/postpet/index.html
the serious version...
http://moneykit.net/
Haveing worked on some of the front end flash code for these sites i can attest that is is possible to build Real, Full Featured Applications with a 100% flash front end and a J2EE backend, and to do it in a way that promotes reusable code and provides a clean seperation between the "prettiness" of the visuals and the underlying display logic. I am a developer, not a designer, but Flash lets me create powerful UI components that look incredibly ugly, and then let a designer make them look pretty without having to worry about them breaking the underlying code. When you couple that with backend technology like java and a database you can make very slick apps that work pretty much identically on any browser that has the plugin.
I think that if macromedia wants to succeed they need to work very hard to port the player to as many platforms/browsers as possible, because the plugin is the barrier for the average user, followed by bandwidth (and poor site design). I think that macromedia could get a big win in this area by open-sourceing the plugin and letting the community at large port it to all their favorite platforms.
-mike c