Python - Web Display Technology
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Sat May 27 06:51:43 EDT 2006
Edward Elliott wrote:
> foxtree at gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>>Flash also behaves consistently cross-browser, cross/platform -- and
>>features cannot be disabled by the user.
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> And that's a good thing? Maybe for Macromedia, not for us. This smells
> like astroturf.
>
>
>
>>Flash can load and play external MP3 audio.
>>Flash can render text...
>>Flash can load/parse/serialize/send XML.
>>Flash can access you webcam, allowing you to create your own video
>>chat/IM app.
>>Flash can programatically-build vector shapes, gradients, and fills.
>
>
> It dices! It splices! Flash can heat your coffee, walk your dog, and
> change your baby! It's the stupendous, miraculous, fantabulous app you
> can't live without!
>
>
>
>>Flash can #animate# stuff!!!
>>
>>Flash is like a 2 MB download that works in almost *every* browser out
>>there. ...it's pretty phenomenal that all those features could have
>>been crammed into it. (like: a built-in interpreter for a
>>late-version-EcmaScript-compliant scripting language -- that, in many
>>ways, is far more capable than what is available w/ JavaScript in most
>>browsers!)
>>
>>*** This feature can be used for a web-based CMS! It would blow-away
>>anything (non-Java) now available for managing and uploading assets.
>>- Show quoted text -
>
>
> Ugh, definitely astroturf.
>
The most telling thing of all is that most of the web sites with a Flash
intro find it necessary to provide a "bypass intro" button. People
quickly tire of this stuff. It's just, well, flashy :-)
Unfortunately it's difficult to get someone who's in love with a
proprietary technology to admit that open standards are preferable.
regards
Steve
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