da Silva, Joe wrote: > Wow! You're the first person I've heard say Flash is cool!
Well, almost cool. It would be cool if it was open standard.. but GIF used to be proprietary too. Someone should reverse engineer SWF, the way GIF or let's say DOC or XLS are not proprietary any longer. > Everyone else I know, hates and detests it as a waste of > bandwidth. Even when using IE, I never enable it, and any > web site that insists on it can "shove it you-know-where". > Fortunately, very few web sites do, because they realise > many people would rather visit their competitors, than put > up with that crap. Hmmm.... > OTOH, Javascript is a necessity, and Michael realises > that. To a lesser extent, so is https. As for Java, same > applies as for Flash - many/most people avoid it. Unlike Java, Flash is often more compact, it runs faster, doesn't crash so often, and there is no altenative plugin for vector-based graphics. But of course, Flash is often used even when it is not necessary... -- Michael "xChaos" Polak +420 603 872631 / +420 2 33355668 / ICQ# 40434104 http://www.arachne.cz (Arachne Labs homepage) http://www.mp3records.cz (100% legal and free music) http://www.legalizace.cz (Stop drug war & release victims !) http://www.vojna.cz (Petice za zruseni vojny i civilni sluzby)
