Oh, I'm definitly not disagreeing that javascript would be a BAD choice and Flash is just the more practical alternative. I was just saying. ;) And oh man, I don't like the Flash IDE.
-Sam On 4/21/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MochiKit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
