On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Marco Peereboom wrote:

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> Somehow the word Java comes to mind...

>

> Tell me again how that one runtime meme worked for them again.

Are you saying that Java is not being used widely?  All of the fundamental

courses in my CS department are taught using Java, and I don't think my

department is an exception.  Seems like a home run to me-- I'm sure that

Sun considers Java a great success.
> Flash is only good for a few things such as "naked ladies performing

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> anatomic tricks", "dude getting punched in the ding-dong" & "Trogodor

> the burninator".  Nothing makes me happier than visiting a website and

> having some ad puking its irrelevant content on me.

That's not what the instructor was pushing for-- he's suggesting that

people build an entire site using Flash.  That's the whole point of Flex.

I don't think that banking websites fall into the category you mention.

His argument was this: Flash is available for Windows, Mac, Linux-- that

gives you pretty much everybody-- and anybody else has marginalized

themselves.
Now, I strongly disagree with him.  For my employer, Flash is not an

option-- our applications need to be able to run on anything, even

cellphones, and they need to be accessible.  The application has to run on

many different backends as well.  But if you don't have those

requirements, or have had the experience of being locked in to a

single-vendor solution, Flash probably looks pretty good to you.
> I for one can't wait to be marginalized.
I doubt that you really feel that way.