Macromedia has an interesting interview with two of the coders who redesigned Wired.com to take advantage of CSS.
A couple of notes:
Wired provides a great example of why CSS is a good thing.
The flash video they used for the interview is pretty cool. There isn't much traditional video, but rather tons of images and screenshots layered over the audio interview. Its actually a fairly effective technique, and probably somewhat friendlier in terms of bandwidth requirements.
The first time I visited the page, I read the text and thought that it was an interesting, if short, article. I didn't even realize that there was a video. I thought the video was simply a nice big graphic. I totally missed the little audio symbol that was suppose to clue me in to the multimedia nature of the piece. In part, the confusion was due to the fact that the movie wasn't in one of the standard video aspect ratios...it was more of a (very) widescreen shape. Also, there was no obvious "play" button. Other than that, the whole thing was rather well done...I just hope other visitors figure out how to use it!
Posted by Karl
February 26, 2004 02:57 PM