> I'm not sure what I want yet either, but it did help, so thanks!

> I'm not sure about aflax because it seems to me that if the javascript
> interface in aflax is creating the flash on the fly, I would think
> rendering would be slower, wouldn't it? And I definitely want the
> latency to be as low as possible. I think I want to use javascript with
> mochikit to control elements in the flash clip via ajaxy calls to a
> server. I'll keep exploring, thanks for the tips.

> Iain

Even without having looked at the details of aflax, I'm pretty sure
that it inserts the Flash application by checking browser versions and
either adding an object or embed-node into the page's DOM. This is
also how the most common Flash embedding scripts, SWFObject and UFO,
does it. This means that the Flash app is inserted on the page "on the
fly", yes, but it is also the recommended way of doing it, and more or
less the fastest way that's going to work. The Flash app is only
inserted once, though, which is what I think you have misunderstood.

Unless you do something very complex or weird there isn't going to be
any latency to speak of. The ExternalInterface is quite quick, I doubt
you will have any problems there.

I have no idea of what you mean when you say "control elements in the
flash clip via ajaxy calls to a server". It seems rather backwards to
involve server calls in the controlling part. I can understand if you
want to load data to display but don't involve it in the
controlling...

Use aflax. Since you ask, I assume you're not a Flash programmer, and
rolling this by yourself when there's a perfectly good framework just
sitting there is not something I would recommend.

yours,
T#


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