Proposition: Flash isn't Evil. (or Good.) It's just a technology.
What we're really talking about, generically, are Rich Internet Applications. Which basically describes a client app that can run almost anywhere, has all the pluses of a browser based app, but is better at doing things like data persistence, complex UI controls, etc. and doesn't repaint it's entire interface with every user interaction.
There are a whole slew of new, enabling technologies landing in the toolkits of developers. OpenLazlo and Adobe Flex to name a couple.
These are developer-centric (re: not just for designers) tools for building RIAs. The Flash player becomes a container environment for RIAs. Some of the tools can also output to DHTML (Ajax). The Flash 9 container has some interesting capabilities. Besides doing the background data thing it can also run outside of a browser and participate in event based message queues.
Take a look at the demos over at OpenLaszlo and Adobe: http://www.openlaszlo.org/demos http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/?tab:samples=1 --rt _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
