> > debugging is easier and the license fee is a lot > lower :)
its all to easy to end up a blind alley with flash also flash often allowed designers to ensure cross platform display Opera 9.5 looks great - very slick and dragonfly will be amazingly advantageous :) 2008/5/7 James Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 7 May 2008 02:35:51 pm Elizabeth Spiegel wrote: > > > > > It can be great for getting immediate feedback without reloading a page > > e.g. building a customised bag at Timbuk2: > > http://www.timbuk2.com/tb2/products/bagbuilder > > > > Elizabeth > > > Hi > > Yes, but that kind of functionality can easily be done with some AJAX > know-how. e.g http://www.stripegenerator.com/ > > Really, from a developers POV, the benefit of Flash was to do the little > http > fetches from the server without loading the page -- what came to be known > as > AJAX. It could do it back in 1999 or whenever Flash 3 came out, in a > rudimentary way. If you are using Flash just for that then JS/HTTP request > can do it just as well, debugging is easier and the license fee is a lot > lower :) That's why I stopped using Flash. > > For design, animation etc, Flash still has the edge although some of the > recent SVG improvements are starting to erode that (like resizable SVG > backgrounds in Opera 9.5) > > Cheers > James > > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
