Hehe... This topic illustrates the great "cool designer vs geeky coder" gap. Perhaps you designers out there haven't noticed, but.... The most popular sites for geek coders are not RIA - they are sites like slashdot, wikipedia and source forge. The rule of thumb is the more text (especially raw code samples) and the less animation and foofy stuff it has - oh... And the more obscure the topics and jargon ... The more appealing it is to your average coder. So for them, html is like manna from heaven, while flash makes them blow chunks :)
-----Original Message----- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 7:58 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Hype 2.0 My thoughts exactly. Gmail is one of the best email clients I've used, desktop or web. On 5/16/06, Neil Middleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/15/06, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sure, you can improve HTML applications by using CSS, XHTML, > > JavaScript, AJAX, etc, etc, but HTML is a fundamentally unsuitable > > technology for application interfaces. > > > > > So, yes, to the extent that "webbiness" means "suckiness", Flex > > should reduce the "webbiness" of the web. Flex is about > > applications. HTML is not, no matter how much we try to make it so. > > > > But surely apps like Google maps or Gmail are excellent examples of web apps > deployed successfully using HTML/JS etc. These statements seem to be too > much of a generalisation to me. -- CFAJAX docs and other useful articles: http://jr-holmes.coldfusionjournal.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240629 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
