> I'm just
> scared to death to pick up flash, because I have a feeling
> that the simple things that take moments to do in html will
> take a huge amount of time or be impossible to do in Flash.
> For example, allot of my clients love the ability to upload
> files, download excel spreadsheets, etc. It takes a few
> moments to plug this into my html apps, however the upload
> component for flash would need integration. There is no way
> that I know of to embed the excel spread sheet into the site
> like I can with IE. The same thing goes with PDF files. How
> fast can a select box that when you type the results are
> narrowed. Can you easily highlight a string of search result
> keywords, etc. All this can be done in Flash if not natively
> by a 3-party component, but not as quick as can be done in html.
> . . . snipped a whole lot more . . .
We have just started this very same discussion here and we need to do all of
those things you mentioned above. We build relatively sophisticated
reporting applications that use thousands of lines of _javascript_ (with CSS)
and multiple visible and hidden frames to create the user interface
experience the users want. It's quickly becoming very cumbersome and more
complicated than we are comfortable with. So we are starting to think about
Flash RIA as an alternative. I'd love to hear about others' experiences in
this area and what people have found to be the best resources for
researching this approach.
And, pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by 'a select box that when
you type the results are narrowed'?
> For example, is it possible to change the
> flash form look and feel via css? Can I quickly change the
> entire look of my application from a css file and not have to
> go in and edit the component code just to change the color.
I went to a MM seminar on the Studio MX 2004 suite and I remember the
presenter saying (and showing us) that Flash MX 2004 can use the same style
sheets as your HTML pages. The Flash crowd ooohed and aaahed over that one.
But I don't know how much CSS capability Flash actually has . . .
George
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