At 10:21 AM 9/6/2003 +0530, you wrote:
In this important project it is possible to bring in some purity if we can get off from a proprietary format like flash. Shouldnt we explore the possibility of using SVG or even the excellent Blender library for education. In fact the latter option gives you 3D graphics in an open standard. See if you can consider this in this project.
best Nagarjuna
Probably something as ambitious as a CDROM-based learning tool is somewhat distant, at least as far as O'Reilly is concerned (Head First Java was already a significant innovation -- more in that "techno-comic" genre would be good before moving out of print media altogether, and it may not be a book publisher that wants to try media beyond print). But you bring up and interesting point in any case, about Flash vs. SVG. I recommend the following article to add grist for your mill (if you hadn't seen it already): http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/05/24/swf_not_flash.html Kirby