On Apr 21, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Sam Sutch wrote:

> You can play/stop sounds if you add/remove (respectivly) an embed
> object with the wav or mp3 set to with the auto play attribute set to
> true.

Sure, but that's stupid because Flash is available just about  
everywhere that is, if not more available... and if you're using  
Flash, you might as well do the whole thing in Flash.  At least you  
only have one buggy platform to code against, rather than the  
gigantic set of all relevant browsers, versions of browsers, sound- 
playing-plugins, and platforms.

> It would not be so hard if there was an IDE like flash, but then you
> get into all the browser incompatabilites and you'd probably want to
> rip your pubic hair out or something by the time you got done.

I'm not a fan of the Flash IDE for doing anything sufficiently  
complicated.. MTASC is pretty nice though.  You can get a pretty good  
develop/test/run cycle if you set up a web server to fork out MTASC  
when your actionscript changes.

The Flash IDE and player's debugging capabilities blow chunks, but  
they're no worse than those available for JavaScript  
implementations.  Plus since you have LocalConnection you can do out- 
of-process debugging with something like XTrace.  Granted you could  
probably do something like that with sync XMLHttpRequest with some  
kind of specialized server, but I haven't seen that.

There probably aren't too many genre of games that make sense in the  
context of AJAX.  However, I'm a huge fan of both ironsudoku.com and  
playbabble.com -- they're very well done, have excellent usability  
and browser compatibility, and I can't imagine them being any better  
given a different choice of technology.

-bob


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