Anselm Hook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

gee i wouldn't mind being able to write native apps... video-game like
interfaces and the like... things where the interface performance is
important...

using javascript is really like stepping 10 years into the past...

I always feel a bit like the proverbial black sheep in the open source community whenever I mention this, but: Flash.

It's fairly inconceivable that the iPhone browser will ship without SWF support - people will want to use YouTube, and a zillion other sites. SWF gives you the interface performance while involving less "coping with IE" headaches than AJAX. (I've just finished v0.1 of an newbie-friendly Openstreetmap editor, built entirely with Ming, and am generally optimistic about the responsiveness of its interface.)

In the past, open source folks have had serious reservations about Flash, and perhaps not without reason. But with Ming and MTASC on the authoring side, and the fast-advancing Gnash on the playback side, it's definitely worth consideration.

cheers
Richard
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