Why not use both? I display Flash 2 movies within.....java applets!
----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 2:42 AM
Subject: [JAVA3D] OFF TOPIC [JAVA3D] unrelated to Java3D
> Everybody has at least Flash 3 installed on their machine, with most
having
> Flash 4 and 5, and it's an extremely easy process to upgrade the plug-in.
> There aren't that many people with a Java plug-in, so most people don't
have
> a JRE above v1.1. And the Munkrosoft saga kind of even ruined that one...
>
> If you can do what you want in Flash, do it in Flash.
>
> (Maybe that's the wrong thing to say on a Java mailing list)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion list for Java 3D API
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paraskevas Orfanides
> Sent: 07 April 2001 03:39
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] unrelated to Java3D
>
> I don't know flash well either. There are certainly things one can do
with
> it that I have no knowledge about. But I've used it some and here what I
> think:
> Flash is faster and easy to implement, but it's limited. It offers some
> interactivity (buttons, mouse_over, mouse_clicks, etc), but I doubt that
it
> can do things like sliders controling graphics in different components of
> different windows, etc. Also, it's hard to put plug-ins for it that are
> outside what is currently implemented. And that's just among the things
> I've dealt with. Looking in the future, where different things will keep
> getting implemented, Java programs will be able to accomodate the changes.
> Flash won't unless Macromedia writes a new version of it.
> In other words, Java is definately more powerful, though there are some
> temporary advantages in using Flash.
> Paraskevas
>
> --- Bill Hibbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Ahmed,
> >
> > > Hey folks, this question doesnt have to do anything with
> > > Java3D so far, but in future it might. My company is
> > > deciding between Flash and Java. I need some strong facts
> > > to prove that Flash is a bad decision and Java is the right
> > > tool. can someone help? I dont know Flash so I cant even
> > > talk against it right now
> >
> > For one thing, most Universities worldwide now teach
> > their beginning programming courses in Java. So now
> > almost everyone coming out of university learned to
> > program in Java. You can almost hear that time bomb
> > ticking.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bill
> >
> >
>
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