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90% of presentations at DevCon 2004 I mean

No they don't -- they have to be arresting.

How much $$$ do companies pay for animated GIFs?

Chris: especially kiosks for prisons...to attract people like Johnny 
Cash

It is about feeling - some ppl don't solve it at all ... looking 
at our Nova TV, when there is some text scrolling, it is hardly readably 
... those ppl are crazy to show such crap .... even our local tv 
using A1200/030 plus Scala is smoother

you say "even"  I think of the Amiga + any software as the benchmark 
everyone else has to meet.

If you're looking for technical perfection, then Rebol might not 
be your answer, but you *can* still turn heads using Rebol/View.

And if you like -- you can start here: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/anim/

The biggest thing from my perspective on Scala is that they have 
the tools to design the advertising.  The tools for content creation 
are sometimes more important for the end-customer than the end user 
experience.

I remember talking to Dave Haynie. He told me, that working at Scala, 
they wrote small OS upon Windows, to get proper timers and to achieve 
smoothness ... if Rebol will be limited to Win32, I am not sure we 
can do better than today no matter how we try. I would go for DirectX 
dependant rebol. Show me one machine, where DirectX is not present 
...

Yeah, to get smooth animation on Windows we had to write a DLL.  
you can't get the clock from within in your own app (bunch of morons).

that is bad  then ...

Petr, you are imposing artificial limitations on yourself.  Ad quality 
animation can be done with Rebol.

Windows is still 90% of machines, if not more .... are things better 
with other OSes, e.g. OSX or Linux?

Pekr you don't need to use windows. Use Linux.

Chris - am I? I just know what I can achieve using Scala, that is 
all :-)

I am using OpenBSD. But there are more multimedia frameworks for 
linux that rebol could interface with.

Petr, that is immaterial.  If you want to do an ad front-end with 
Rebol, it can be done.

Jaime - the thing is - we are very near with Rebol, but not there 
yet, and that is a pity. Dunno what would be neede, but IIRC even 
Carl told us, that better granularity for events is needed and it 
was his plan, but not high on priority list. Dunno if opening View 
would help here ...

Chris - very nice demo ... but maybe I should open content about 
"who produces the smoothest text scrolling demo wins :-)"

Why does that matter?  Why do ads have to be smooth?

because smoothness produces better kind of attraction to ad

They don't need to be smooth, they just need to be smart.

Jaime's point is closer to the mark -- it is authoring that matters.

I played few presentation for ppl using ppt and than few ones using 
Scala ... I did it on intention and I do remember those reactions 
...

Chris showed a great presentation tool + presentation, custom crafted 
for DevCon2004, which looked so effortless, maybe some people did 
not know how cool it really was...;-)

eFish -- I need to get around to publishing it.

It wasn't smart, but would get your attention.  It was interactive 
to boot.

It wasn't 'smooth', that is...

arresting

the cool thing in my mind is that it didn't look like a presentation 
slide show.

but why not be kings, if we could be kings ... how would you do image 
transitions, if we will not have fast means of pixel changes? Pokeing 
at image is not the way to go ... hopefully Cyphre has something 
in mind and will influence Carl a bit as he did with AGG ....

you rounded the corners, you made it more tween a movie and a presentation...nice 
blend.

Pekr, you can be a king, if only you learn to wear the crown. "said 
in the voice of the Princess in

what kind of presentation are you talking about? Is it anywhere in 
DevCon download section?

The Never Ending Story

you can see some of it in Chris...mov I suppose.  Haven't watched 
it since the real thing.

Pekr, you make me think of the Doubting Thomas who was on vacation 
during the "Pentocost"

OK, my main point was - why use rebol for presentation, if 1) it 
can be used only by me, and adv company can't deliver its own content 
2) no Authoring tool exists (although dialect is a good start) 3) 
it will hardly produce better output that Scala

the wise thing initially imo would be to "deploy", not to reinvent 
....

I want to produce kiosk, put pc in, add touchscreen, start windows 
or linux, install scala player, ppt player, whatever player, add 
ios client to sync what/when/how should be played, play the advert 
... that is the whole initial plan

Pekr, you are correctly pointing out that things like IOS have NO 
limitations...Freedom to do it as you want to.

some may even want static presentation using html and few flash anims 
... I just need to be able to script/navigate/kill it ....

and that is a salient point which I make in sales pitches.

I can't produce all presentations for such companies, I don't own 
gfx studio nor am I skilled as Chris is, so I want to give companies 
freedom to bring in own spots ...

but it does not mean I would not like to see rebol based tool :-) 
I am still surprised by Jeff's anim dialect, very cool aproach, could 
be extended ....

That's what I did for my presentation.

otoh I don't give up on possibility to make things better. Some of 
us were telling View was OK even before AGG, now we know AGG was 
good addition. The same may go for few small twist to View kernels, 
which would open many more possibilities ....

Reading Carl only group I wonder what will be the next blog about 
:-)

Does anyone own mac-mini already?