Fair enough, and even though it's extremely rare up here to not use broadband, I'm sure that's not the case all over the world.
I can regularly create pretty sweet applications under 200k and I've seen quite a few static sites who's frontpage weighs in heavier than that. The CF dashboard I did came in at about 300k and that was a full 40+ formed application... it's all about usage. The problem isn't Flash, it's the lack of developers using it properly. It also doesn't help that the learning curve for Flash has definitely gotten a lot steeper with the introduction of all it's features over the past few years... and I think that traditional developers are somewhat scared of it. The easier ways to use it (Components, Frameworks, etc) weigh in pretty chubby for smaller things and you tend to lose the re-usability that components help with. Cheers, !k -----Original Message----- From: Cutter (CFRelated) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 15, 2006 7:13 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Hype 2.0 Kevin, Some of us remember that Flash content can be a heavy download with a large application and prefer to keep things quick and clean (kinda the idea with the web in the first place). I'm not saying that Flash and Flex don't have their place. Both are exciting, rich technologies with tons of potential, and Flash Player 9 is supposed to be the fastest ever, but I also try to remember that not all the world lives on a broadband connection either. Cutter ____________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Kevin Aebig wrote: > Tsk Tsk... > > The sad fact is that most developers prefer AJAX because they either can't > budget something like custom Flash into their projects, or they simply don't > have the time to learn Flash. > > AJAX doesn't hold a candle to Flash in terms of features and flex-ibility > (pun intended). > > !k > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: May 12, 2006 1:58 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Hype 2.0 > > Well I feel that using AJAX is damn fine and beats the crap out of Flash for > RIA > > .....that said I have otherwise ignored Web 2.0 > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > phone: 250.480.0642 > fax: 250.480.1264 > cell: 250.920.8830 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.electricedgesystems.com > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240612 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
