Frank/Michael
Personally whenever I see a Flash site I always elect 'html' simply because
I dont have the time to wait for stream to load to
my browser client..Its a bandwidth issue..*any* technology which attenuates
the content to minimum bandwidth of the underlying
transport will succeed (viz a viz Ajax..)
Just my 2 cents,
Martin-
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From: "Michael Jouravlev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org>;
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Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Struts + AJAX Trumps JSF
On 10/13/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's not going to kill Flash because, when used properly, Flash is
fantastic and different from anything else out there. Just as a silly
example: how am I going to a StrongBad eMail in Ajax? A lot of people
hate Flash, but I think that comes from people misusing it...
Well, maybe. But it is slow, slow, slow. And, I already have windowing
system in my OS, why do I need another one? I thought that with
webapps now I don't have to move windows over screen and click on tiny
[x] buttons. Avalon - that is the real thing. Flash is just something
to fill the void before Avalon kicks in ;-)
you can't do an RIA without client-side scripting (at least, I can't see
how you could). Be that as it may, those that still cling to that old
mentality won't be touching Ajax.
Some nice scripting without Ajax, just Javascript and CSS:
http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2005/10/05/form/form4.htm
I wish Struts Validator could be that cool :-)
So no, I don't think Ajax is the great savior or anything, nor is it the
future of web development in and of itself. How I think it will be
remembered though is in showing that RIAs are viable and that the real
paradigm shift isn't Ajax itself, but is the underlying architectures it
fosters, the new way of thinking about web-based applications.
Please, don't throw out the baby with the bath water. I still think
that idea of hyperlinked documents is a nice one. The possibility to
print any page is nice. The possibility to change font size, colors,
style and even formatting is nice. Zero footprint and installation is
nice. Web apps are not a step backward to character terminals, they
are... a sidestep, if you will. I don't want to go back to windowed
apps like Swing over JNLP, I had my share of Borland C++, MCVC 4 and
5, Delphi and even PowerBuilder.
I mean, both types of apps have pros and cons, and I believe that
"traditional" web app will survive.
Michael.
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