RE: [flexcoders] Google, Yahoo hooked on AJAX?

[Jonathan Miranda]

Well my best guess is mass-market appeal (Flash player doesn’t work on everything) and Flex 2 is still beta (Flex1 and Flex1.5 were nice but not near as sexy from a usability standpoint). _________________________________________ Jonathan Miranda Flexible Master of the Web "Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value." - Albert Einstein HealthGrades: Guiding America to Better Healthcare™ NASDAQ: HGRD w  (720) 963-3832 c  (707) 761-0868 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________ The message contains confidential and/or legally privileged information and is intended for use only by the indicated addressee.  If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute, or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmissions cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed,arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dos dedos Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 10:25 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Google, Yahoo hooked on AJAX?   Google has purchased at least one company that uses Flash or Flex (a Web analytics startup) but their own internal efforts seem to be always focused on AJAX ... e.g. the latest Google Mars (http://www.google.com/mars/) So it's fair to wonder why Google isn't doing more with Flex at this time ... and why Flickr (Yahoo) moved from Flash to AJAX ... especially given the fact that Flex 2 has a lot going for it from technical and end-user perspectives. Attitudes change over time and new technologies take a while to adopt, but it'd be nice to understand whether or not Google, Yahoo and others are consciously resisting Flex based on some non-technical reason (e.g. the fact that Flex is a proprietary platform whereas AJAX is not.) Google's and Yahoo's position doesn't matter all that much as far as market adoption for Flex, but it would be interesting to understand the strategic reasons why Google, Yahoo and other major players (e.g. eBay) have so far preferr ed to stick with AJAX. An interesting position for Google and Yahoo would be to endorse AJAX half of the time and Flex the other half, or two thrids to one. This way they would keep the market from leaning too heavily in favor of either. But as of now, they're leaning too heavily in favor of AJAX, yet it's very possible that they'll release (or acquire) something based on Flex 2 in the future. I believe Sun has been very successful with Java on the server side ... Flex could become as popular on the client side as Java is on the server side if  it's opened up in the style of the Java Community Process. Just curious if anyone has any insights about where Adobe may be going with Flex ... ? Marc Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.