Hi! On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:54:15AM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: >On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:59:44PM -0700, Jason LaRiviere wrote:
>> Flash has a place on the web, just like any other rich media format. It >> should be used responsibly, as semantically as possible, and degrade >> nicely for those who care not to use it. I make every effort to use it >> within these guidelines, and present them as gospel to my clients. Many >> (most?) modern web developers do too, except for the ones at a Flex >> conference who still think drawing entire websites in Flash is a good >> idea. Shame on them, but they are a dying breed. >Flash has one huge technical benefit. There are a number of sites that >generate large amounts of dynamic images. Doing this in a fast and >efficient manner requires an enormous amount of computing resources. >Using flash pushes that work out to the client where it can be rendered >on their own system. What about four letters: Java? One advantage: No blob required. And at least a *bit* more portable. And will eventually be quite open source. Kind regards, Hannah.
