Hey everyone,
Well Findal, the one whose entry (http://www.fndzinz.com/) was disqualifed last week because of not containing enough Flash, has sent me this response:
<FONT face=“Times New Roman” size=3>Aw man…
Gggs, thats not what I thought you were gonna say.
I ask you to please reconsider , as if it’s 50%, In really thought I beat
that and the 80% mark too. I use flash on the main page, right up to the
logo and in the menus; YES, which are repeated on every page in the html.
BUT, while there are 8 linked pages that are just plain html while using all
those FLASH menus, there are 15 FLASH Example SWF pages, 4 FLASH photo
Albums, one of which has over 400 pix, and there are 6 other FLASH examples
under the heading ‘projects’. The creel survey and Display can be added to
the list as more FLASH too. I assume that it’s evident that the 2 news
displays on main page are flash, as is the weather display.
Just as a bit of info what this sites stats are too
Which shows that I serve up a majority of …swf
File Type Report
File Type Requests % Bytes
.swf 23807 18.446% 47.621 47.621%
.jpg 24719 19.153% 24.425 24.425%
.MOV 52 0.040% 9.935 9.935%
.php 18214 14.113% 4.633 4.633%
.JPG 374 0.290% 4.463 4.463%
.mp3 27 0.021% 2.737 2.737%
.xml 5903 4.574% 1.658 1.658%
.html 5211 4.038% 1.513 1.513%
[directories] 2974 2.304% 1.055 1.055%
.gif 18896 14.641% 0.932 0.932%
.txt 11463 8.882% 0.487 0.487%
.css 13596 10.535% 0.390 0.390%
[not listed: 5] 3824 2.963% 0.153 0.153%
For the majority of instances, FLASH uses the php, xml,mp3,text, css and the
.jpg as content feeds.
Any way, I know you gotta make a call, but after all the times I got heck
for “So Much Flash” in my sites, its a bit ironic to hear its not enough. 
<SCRIPT><!–D([“mb”,“Especially
when there is way more time to spend looking at FLASH on my site
than other
things. I try to incorperate it in different ways, replacing php
or html
script output in a more graphical manner.
I'm just a guy trying to pimp my
site and stretch my portfolio and maybe get
a job.
Thanks for
reconsidering and letting me know .
Findal
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From: "Kirupa Chinnathambi" <</font><a href=”“"mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,this)"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">[email protected]</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">>
To: "Findal @ kirupaForum" <</font><a href=”“"mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,this)"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">[email protected]</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">>
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: Site of the
Week
> Hello Findal!
> A site, in order to be qualified for
SOTW, needs to be at least 50%
> Flash. The mods and I decided after
seeing your site that only the
> main page and the navigation were done in
Flash. That unfortunately
> makes your site ineligible for
SOTW.
>
> Cheers!
> Kirupa =)
>
> On Sat, 31 Jul
2004 18:09:12 -0700, Findal @ kirupaForum
> <</font><a href=”“"mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,this)"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">[email protected]</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">>
wrote:
> > This is a message from Findal at kirupaForum (
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accept any
responsibility for the contents of the email.
",1]);//–></SCRIPT>Especially when there is way more time to spend looking at FLASH on my site
than other things. I try to incorperate it in different ways, replacing php
or html script output in a more graphical manner.
I’m just a guy trying to pimp my site and stretch my portfolio and maybe get
a job.
Thanks for reconsidering and letting me know .
Findal[/size][/font]
I still don’t see how using one giant Flash form makes the site any more Flash-based. Even using a Flash menu, most of his site is still HTML.
:sigh:
