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On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:48:15 -0800 (PST), m a r l o n . n e l s o n <thesardonicwon@y...> wrote: > Anyway, i think it would serve much better if we were to concern > ourselves more with the marriage of technologies, as opposed to the > conflict(s) of good/bad dichotomies, etc. Yup. I thought Tim O'Reilly's comment to the effect "explain why DHTML is good and Flash is bad" was pretty thought provoking. As I understand it, serious "rich internet applications" are a lot easier to write in a portable way with Flash than DHTML, even though flash is proprietary and DHTML is standardized. On one hand, it's not a "problem" because XML is just the data and doing what it is supposed to do. On the other hand, the XML-based UI technologies such as XHTML+SVG+whatever seem to be losing the mindshare race in a big way. It's odd how Macromedia has quietly out-Microsofted Microsoft here :-) One wonders how they got away with it. I guess the tried and true way -- one little increment at a time, all the while denying the intent to want to own more than they already own. Oh yeah, and the tried and true "give away the razor (browser plugin) and sell the blade (authoring tools)". Given that Macromedia (unlike, ahem, others that come to mind) don't seem to want to use their monopoly in one area to drag us kicking and screaming into their future monopolies in other areas, what besides the "political and religious" objections are there to using Flash for rich internet apps? The main one that comes to mind is that I can sortof imagine DHTML+SVG scaling to a mobile platform or porting to a brand new OS that Macromedia hasn't gotten around to supporting yet. Others?
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