SVG is a contender in this space. Adobe's recent aquisition of Macromedia may spell the end of support by Adobe, but the Mozilla and Linux community is clearly behind SVG and Microsoft does their predictable regaling and vaporware releases to please the software community. Certainly worth checking out. jmz
--- Warner Onstine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last night at the after-meeting beer fest at Gentle > Ben's Tim found a > new victim for his Rich Internet App tirade, err, > enlightened point of > view (which I happen to share to a certain degree). > During his > speechifying Tim began to proclaim that Flex was the > bomb and that all > should bow before it as the new King of RIA (alright > maybe those > weren't his exact words, but you get the idea). So, > being the OSS geek > that I am I challenged him to write a Flex app and I > would write the > comparable Laszlo app so that all could see the > pluses and minuses of > both frameworks. Tim begged off citing something > called lack of time, > whatever that means. > > After everyone left Duffy and I were walking back to > the U and thinking > about how this could get turned into a different > format for the > meetings. Basically pick a specific application (I > proposed the Wafer > project - http://www.waferproject.org as the basis > for this) and then > have this application written in different > frameworks for a cool > comparison and we could all see (and learn) from > others' explorations. > > What does everyone think of this? I would preferably > like to see a > smackdown type of meeting with two frameworks going > head-to-head, but > maybe that's just me ;-). > > Since I don't know anyone else who has done any work > on Flex, I thought > a good Tapestry vs. JSF smackdown would be in order. > > What does everyone think? Other smackdowns? Other > applications? > > -warner > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
