> Wow, you're right. That Flex Code Explorer is horrible. It even kinda
> "shudders" when it's expanding and collapsing. And the app takes
> around
> a minute to load.
>
> Why is any of this better than a DHMTL tree with nice little images?
>
>
The biggest disadvantage to DHTML is that it is difficult to make it
work the same way on different browsers/platforms -- y' never quite get
there.
Java applets try to address this, but there is no guarantee what the
Java environment will be on any given client machine -- write once,
debug everywhere.
XUL attempts to resolve this by 1) limiting browser choice in the short
run; 2) posing standards in the long run -- don't know if this will
work.
Flash does the best job (hence its ubiquity) by providing consistent
plugins for most browsers/platforms.
But, at least for now, the Flash solution has a price in overhead and
performance.
Dick
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