I know this has probably been discussed before but I am still
struggling with the applicability of when to use the Flash platform
and when to use Ajax. Especially the components issue - and poor text
handling - is driving us away from Flash. So we are still musing
about using AJAX instead of Flash but Ajax doesn't feel right, for
some reason. What are your opinions on this?
I don't have extensive experience with Ajax but there seems more good
quality OS dhtml stuff to use than Flash. (For example this datagrid
http://www.activewidgets.com/grid/ - try finding that in Flash). The
biggest problem for us being the components of flash (with the
exception of the Flex components) being less superior to the native
HTML UI objects and DHTML objects currently available.
I know there are projects out there for developing components, like
Actionstep.org and of course Grant Skinners soon-to-be-released GLIC
components. However it's surprising to me that this is lagging so far
behind and that there are so many more DHTML / HTML UI components
than Flash - correct my ignorance if this is not true.
Within heavily-interactive rich apps flash is still best due to it's
good OO design (which allows for proven OO design patterns), good
animation properties, near-perfect cross platform support and
frameworks like ARP. Unless a good OS component framework arises is
Flash going to remain more expensive to develop than Ajax?
Stefan Fountain
Eight Media
BTW - the EULA for Flex doesn't allow us to use the components
independently of the Flex product, correct? That would solve the
component problems immediately.
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