Hi!
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:54:15AM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:

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>On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:59:44PM -0700, Jason LaRiviere wrote:

>> Flash has a place on the web, just like any other rich media format. It

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>> should be used responsibly, as semantically as possible, and degrade

>> nicely for those who care not to use it. I make every effort to use it

>> within these guidelines, and present them as gospel to my clients. Many

>> (most?) modern web developers do too, except for the ones at a Flex

>> conference who still think drawing entire websites in Flash is a good

>> idea. Shame on them, but they are a dying breed.

>Flash has one huge technical benefit.  There are a number of sites that

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>generate large amounts of dynamic images.  Doing this in a fast and

>efficient manner requires an enormous amount of computing resources.

>Using flash pushes that work out to the client where it can be rendered

>on their own system.

What about four letters: Java? One advantage: No blob required. And at

least a *bit* more portable. And will eventually be quite open source.
Kind regards,
Hannah.