On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Marco Peereboom wrote:
Somehow the word Java comes to mind...
Tell me again how that one runtime meme worked for them again.
Are you saying that Java is not being used widely? All of the fundamental
courses in my CS department are taught using Java, and I don't think my
department is an exception. Seems like a home run to me-- I'm sure that
Sun considers Java a great success.
Flash is only good for a few things such as "naked ladies performing
anatomic tricks", "dude getting punched in the ding-dong" & "Trogodor
the burninator". Nothing makes me happier than visiting a website and
having some ad puking its irrelevant content on me.
That's not what the instructor was pushing for-- he's suggesting that
people build an entire site using Flash. That's the whole point of Flex.
I don't think that banking websites fall into the category you mention.
His argument was this: Flash is available for Windows, Mac, Linux-- that
gives you pretty much everybody-- and anybody else has marginalized
themselves.
Now, I strongly disagree with him. For my employer, Flash is not an
option-- our applications need to be able to run on anything, even
cellphones, and they need to be accessible. The application has to run on
many different backends as well. But if you don't have those
requirements, or have had the experience of being locked in to a
single-vendor solution, Flash probably looks pretty good to you.
I for one can't wait to be marginalized.
I doubt that you really feel that way.
