Ian,
I was just writing the exact same response!
Apollo looks to take Director's place as a RAD tool.
Flex is what they are pushing for enterprise RIA's (Possibly
succeeding the Flash Communication Server).
'Flash' on the web as I see it is for certain media's where other
solutions haven't the market saturation or have limited functionality
e.g. audio / video / drawing / webcams.
All in all, i'm perfectly happy with the Flash player being the front-
end for these solutions.
The old view I had was of flash being used for blitzing all areas of
interactivity and multimedia on the web. Now I see it as nothing more
than a front end to a suite of tools.
In the past i've used abstraction layers to allow me to use a
different front-end not only for accessibility but primarily for
future-proofing.
Regards,
Gareth Rodger
W: http://www.garethrodger.com
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On 5 Dec 2006, at 16:46, Ian Forrester wrote:
It wasn't till I met Aral Balkan and Niqui Merret at BarCampLondon
that I started to accept that my views of Flash were very much old
fashioned. Flash has moved on quite a lot and there are real
problems still with it but its got a lot better.
I still won't use it on my own sites unless its for video or audio
playback. But I was always a huge fan of SVG :)
Cheers,
Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || x83965
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I don't know why it seems to be Flash in particular that brings this
out in folk.
I can tell you that it is no different on the continent either - I
spent a very entertaining meeting here in Austria the other week
facing exactly the same "The horror! The horror!" reaction to the
notion of using Flash :-)
all the best,
martin
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