From: Hassan Schroeder Have you ever developed -- or even used -- an application built in Flex, or OpenLaszlo? Perfectly simple to do any of the above, with the advantage of easy integration with video and other rich content.
[CM] Yes, I've tried Flex and abandoned the effort. It didn't give me any additional benefits to offset the effort and it greatly reduced the ability to index and organize content to make it searchable, findable. About the only benefit I've found to Flash is in the use of video. But I only use video to augment the primary content, not contain primary content. There's no benefit in having true interactive methods such as discussion forums or wikis or blogs in Flash. Yes, taxonomies and keywords can be assigned but the content remains locked away. Plus, I still haven't seen any postings explaining the benefits of taking accessible text and graphics, then going through the effort of creating Flash files from them, then going through the effort of making Flash accessible. Plus, there's the maintenance issue. Simple example I always use is what if you had to change a corporate logo in every Flash file? To do that with a dynamic database approach you change the file once and that's it. To change it in every Flash file, you have to find the source, if you can, then change each file and rerun it. Or, even more fun, try to change something like a product image where you don't know which Flash files referenced which version of which product image when they were created. Christie Mason ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
