The thing that makes developers run for Flash is MS's defective IE browser. Flash is an easy way to program sophisticated user interaction on a common platform across all browsers. The choices are either Flash or AJAX/FJAX and Flash is more bullet proof.
>The main requirement for the Internet is universality. I'm talking about >web pages and features working for all fairly recent platforms and >browsers. The MPEG codecs are open, so players are available. The >objects are also fast enough to work. Not so with Flash. Flash objects >may be small, but they're slow. WMV objects are unreliable. They fail to >load or lose a stream after a short time. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
