course), get travel directions and so on - have been solved problems
by 1992 or so. It was just a matter of being able to work the
They were solved in theory. In practice, AFAIK there were next to no
applications - at least ones accessible to average user, don't know what
happened in the military or other government business - that did it.
Neither the server nor the flash client are done by web programmers.
I don't know how you define "web programmer" but client side was what I
talked about. Including Flash/Flex, AJAX, soon-to-be Silverlight and others.
server. All of the interesting stuff is done in the server. Some semi-
interesting things are done in the flash client (things HTML is
incapable of - zoom, pan, vector graphics, texts drawn in angles or
following a path...)
HTML is capable of many of that, BTW - with some help from
Javascript/CSS of course. And will be capable of more as future web
standards get developed and supported (canvas, SVG, whole HTML 5 business).
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