I can't understand why AFLAX library authors put such unindicative demos to their site. These demos look like good old Flash sources and show no advantage of using AJAX with Flash.
> AJAX is, as far as Im concerned, irrelevant to flash development > because of the veryprocess that AJAX uses is built into flash. Why go > back to javascript?
I'm impressed by the project. Why do we differ? Because you are not the audience. You can already do this stuff. You don't need the JavaScript, agreed.
But think about it from someone else's point of view -- think about it from the point of view from the person who wants to achieve new browser-based goals, and has heard about this "Ajax" that will help without having to learn that weird Flash stuff. (You don't think like that and I don't think like that, but we can agree that some *do* think like that.) Now they see ways that Flash Platform can help them achieve their own goals, in a way that they can see themselves accomplishing.
Is a threat to you and your skills? I don't think so -- Paul's stuff has to be generic, to handle a range of similar tasks, with a range of varied skills. You can always handroll a neater solution, a more compact solution, a more tuned-to-the-needs solution.
Is ALFAX of help to those of us on this list? I think so... the sooner we can kill off those wacky "Ajax will crush Flash!" tangents that some of the newbies latch onto, the better, so far as I'm concerned. Does this seem attractive to you too...?
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