One of these days i need to get somebody's old os9 computer for testing this kind of stuff, but I'm afraid I don't have one either.
I fully anticipate those old computers to still be around in 2010 though the press that covers the computer industry seems to care less and less about them (as owned by folk who obviously don't upgrade or buy new stuff).
On the other hand I'm also kind of curious as to how well externalinterface can be relied on with various mobile phones too, which the marketing press seem to care more and more about, though I see that market as a boondoggle until the phone companies stop being so greedy for every connected penny per second.
Finally the last thing that I worry about in terms of _javascript_ isn't just backward compatability, but forward compatability. I'll never forget a bug in a _javascript_ app in 2000 being created in a minor upgrade version of ie because they had fixed a bug that had been previously been worked around.
But generally I'm just thinking that it would be great to maintain a reliable fallback plan for when externalinterface is not available as I think it will be tempting to rely on it more and more going into the future and that a clear seperation could get lost as the line starts bluring between dhtml and flash as the runtime.
Anyway, thanks for listening.
-Cort
On 12/17/05, DL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 17 Dec 2005 at 12:51, Cortlandt Winters wrote:
> I just wanted to mention, as I think that external interface is one of
> those things that won't work with IEMac, that one of Laszlo's most
> promising niche's is educational software.
Fair point .. I don't now have a Mac to test this ..
but why, then, does this Macromedia Flash note on localconnection refer to
Macintosh source files for localconnection ... ?
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16243
localconnection_files.sea.hqx
DL
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