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 Interesting piece on News.Com about Flash MX, quoting Bruce Perens and Dale Dougherty, but no Flash developers or users. Macromedia's direction is interesting because there are creative people at work filling in the blanks and trying out new ideas. The Web that Dougherty is watching out for is frozen, it's fine, Flash is no threat to it. Google can write a driver that indexes Flash content, and Macromedia can define a URL structure for content inside a Flash document. News.Com only presents the case against Flash MX, where's the other side, how about interviewing people who are dreaming of new things you can do with it? I don't mind reading the naysayers, but I also want inspiration.  [Scripting News]
Flash is a great web development tool. With it developers can create richer client side web applications, far more richer than HTML with forms. The Flash player can be seen as a platform agnostic common runtime that enables developers to create great web applications with video, sound and interactivity that is impossible to achieve with HTML, DHTML and JavaScript combined.
With Flash developed web applications the user experience is fluid: often the user is not even aware that he communicates with a server. With HTML, to the contrary, the user has to submit information via a submit button and wait for the response to return from the server. If he has completed the form and there are some errors, he is returned a bunch of error messages and it is often a nightmare to decipher which error message relate to which form element. After correction he must resubmit and so on ... With Flash, the user experience is continuous and with HTML it is discreet.
8:30:38 PM Google It!
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