On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:12:45 +0100, Michael Polak wrote: > da Silva, Joe wrote: >> Wow! You're the first person I've heard say Flash is cool!
> Well, almost cool. It would be cool if it was open standard.. > but GIF used to be proprietary too. Someone should reverse engineer SWF, > the way GIF or let's say DOC or XLS are not proprietary any longer. >> Everyone else I know, hates and detests it as a waste of >> bandwidth. Even when using IE, I never enable it, and any >> web site that insists on it can "shove it you-know-where". >> Fortunately, very few web sites do, because they realise >> many people would rather visit their competitors, than put >> up with that crap. > Hmmm.... >> OTOH, Javascript is a necessity, and Michael realises >> that. To a lesser extent, so is https. As for Java, same >> applies as for Flash - many/most people avoid it. > Unlike Java, Flash is often more compact, it runs faster, doesn't crash > so often, and there is no altenative plugin for vector-based graphics. > But of course, Flash is often used even when it is not necessary... Doesn't crash so often???? Try this one. http://www.tronkillerapp.com/ You will need Java, Java Script and Flash. (yes, it uses all 3 of them) :(((( I don't know which of those 3 is the problem. But.... It crashed my system 6 times last evening. :(( -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.zorg.org/unixhumour/
