Sorry for my intromission but... I can't understand why you are thinking about a "clash"...As stated by some authors, AJAX is nothing more than a summing up of different technology (i guess that for some extent It can be called up as an architecture) therefore I think there is "room" for flash and whatever else (it mainly depends upon what you have to do, your goals, aims, etc etc)...
...I guess a good starting point for ajax is backbase.com (there is a community edition if you wanna try out some ajax flavour)... ...just take a look to understand better...It is what I am doing actually...that means...Can i gain something functional to my aims knowing the way ajax works and is implemented? How can i come up with something "public catching" and useful putting together the stuff I Know and the whole of open standards around the web (content in its varying forms)... ...Still can't understand why many people around are so flash-frightened...(some argue about excessive cpu usage...but...are they talking about ads? or RIAs?)... ...anyway...Let's see what is going to come out!!! Best to all of you while I come back to the boring work I am doing now! See ya Stefano Il giorno 14-11-2005 15:44, John Dowdell, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: >> 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...? > > jd > > > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

