--- Andrew McNabb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > "that has the correct plugin" is the important thing. Flash > only works on a few platforms, and even then, it doesn't work > consistently.
I haven't had any problem with Flash working in Safari on my PPC Mac, but it's unrelliable in Firefox. Still, my Mac is the only machine where I can use Flash sites at all: there *is no* native Flash plugin for FreeBSD. I'm no great fan of applets, either, but at least Java works on my platforms of choice. Flash doesn't. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
