gnylarichard wrote: > How long has flash been around? 10 years, maybe more so why isnt the > web 90% flash driven?
Because it would be folly to use Flash on tasks for which HTML is more appropriate. Chuck wrote: > I like to keep an open mind but I do not think SVG will ever be > practicle for commercial high-performance RIA's. SVG is a specification... the step beyond that is an implementation... the step beyond that is getting consumers to install it on their own machines. "SVG" can't do RIAs, even though SVG technology might conceivably be used in the execution of a particular RIA. The term "Rich Internet Application" was, of course, developed by Macromedia 4-5 years ago to describe some of the new work then being done on Flash Platform, even though it has been co-opted recently by those marketing browser text-refreshes under the "Ajax" moniker. (btw, ActionScript 3 has been in public alpha since the turn of the year, and it was this week that Flex2/AS3 entered its second round of public beta, scheduled for ship in June of this year.) (And while I'm posting, I wish I had news on the new Adobe's plans for using SVG technology in the whole platform, but I've seen less roadmap guidance than I had hoped for at this point... lots of guidance on isolated areas like Fireworks and video/Flash integration and more, but not much on Apollo, not much on SVG... still have to wait a bit for the big picture on the next generation of work, I'm sorry to say. I'm hoping there's a way to leverage your SVG skills in this area but don't have good projections yet myself.) gnylarichard wrote: > What i find funny is that when xaml comes out it will strengthen svg > and xaml for both microsoft and SVG and leave the 14yr olds to move > circles and text around with the words "look how cool this is" in > flash I was one of the actual paying attendees at Microsoft's MIX event this week, where they launched new details about what may be possible in XAML and Vista sometime next year. I've still got some sets of notes to post, but there's already a bunch up at my weblog, which you may find of interest. I'd urge you not to take my reports at face value, of course, but to corroborate these accounts with the impressions blogged by others who saw first-hand the Microsoft demos, and the audience response. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
