On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 02:08:48PM -0700, Paul Seamons wrote: > > That isn't quite true. Flash can play video, move vector based images around > (in a cross browser way), play sound, and on. Applets can maintain a pipe > back to the server. Both Flash and Java can be arbitrarily designed with an > large amounts of prebuilt widgets. Once built they run the same everywhere > that has the correct plugin. > > AJAX can't do any of that (not without massive amounts of hacking). >
"that has the correct plugin" is the important thing. Flash only works on a few platforms, and even then, it doesn't work consistently. In fact, the only machine that I regularly use that can do Flash is my MythTV box (x86 Linux). Flash does not work reliably on any of the other machines I use (mostly AMD64 Linux, PPC Linux, and PPC Mac OS X). Partly by choice and partly by necessity, I avoid sites that use Flash. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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