--- The Chris Method <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7/29/05, Konstantin Ignatyev > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Yes, I would agree that Flash is widely installed, > but > > I would not call it "software platform" 99.9% of > > sites I have remember visiting use Flash as > annoying > > glitter. > > One site I remember used Flash as application > (real > > estate search) but it worked incorrectly on Linux. > > > > It's true, Flash has been used largely for silly > buttons, animations, and > "glitter" for a while now. Macromedia really is > making an effort to make it > more of a platform that developers can work with. > http://www.macromedia.com/platform/ > > You can even write an entire Flash app in Eclipse. > There's a bigger and > bigger open source Flash community building. > Granted, it's miniscule > compared to what Java has right now, but it goes to > show that perceptions of > Flash amongst developers are probably going to > change. See > http://osflash.org/doku.php > > And one anecdote about a broken Flash site is not a > very good critique, now > is it? That's like saying "One time I went to a site > that used MySql and it > was broken because they had bad connection > management, therefore mysql > sucks." > > And how about Flash VM memory management, resource > > sharing and management separately lazily loadable > by > > client library of flash components anybody? > > All can be done but them Flash VM will become JVM > > > Client library of flash components seperately and > lazily loading resource > sharing? I'm not sure I know what that means. > Konstantin Ignatyev PS: If this is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of tropical rainforest, create seventy-two miles of desert, eliminate between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons of topsoil, add 2,700 tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase their population by 263,000 Bowers, C.A. The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools. New York: State University of New York Press, 1997: (4) (5) (p.206) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
