On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:45:20 +0000, Andy Greener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Better get used to it - Adobe are merging it with PDF :-/ and
>pushing it into the RIA ("Rich Internet Applications") space....
I'm ambivalent to it (:-) -
I can see it has some very good uses - like animated instructional
presentations etc etc - but some people just use it because it is
there and they don't bother that it is not accessible to everybody,
and when done badly the flash files can be huge.
PDF is much more useful, but then I only use Open Office to generate
my PDF's - Acrobat is too expensive
The trouble as I see is that Adobe is almost becoming as bad as
Microsoft in market domination - and sadly they bought Macromedia and
with it one of my main programs - Dreamweaver. (:-((
Fortunately Adobe have readers for both on UNIX & Linux
You may be able to tell that I'm a great supporter of Open Source
software (:-)
On the OT subject of Christmas cards that come as .exe files - I
wouldn't open them.
--
Malcolm
