Kindly Cast ur Vote: Text Vs. Interactive flash/video guides

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 07:54 -0500, Dan Smith wrote:
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> Eewwww... Flash has always had a nasty mem leak in it.   More so you
> cannot copy and paste text out of it as examples, can't save off a
> page to separate file for later reference or merge pages for
> accumulated knowledge. Edits would require flash tools.  Then upkeep
> would incur so much more overhead and require more from end user.

AFAICT Gnash does not suffer from the memory leak problem.  Copying and
pasting text is an issue, though, as is the editing.  I imagine most
screencasts are conceived and produced as one-off, zero-maintenance
projects.

> The only possible benefit I could is for complex tasks that new users
> might attempt.

Since that is, in fact, the target subject matter and audience for the
screencasts, I think if someone wants to go to the trouble of
contributing it, we should encourage it.  I would caution any screencast
authors to keep the screencasts modular and short, so that if we need to
"fix" (that is, "redo") anything, it doesn't involve a long, drawn-out
process of recreation.

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