bruno at modulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SamFeltus wrote: >> I am trying to figure out why so little web development in Python uses >> Flash as a display technology. It seems most Python applications >> choose HTML/CSS/JS as the display technology, yet Flash is a far more >> powerful and elegant display technology. On the other hand, HTML/JS >> seems clunky and antiquated. I am a gardener, and not a coder by >> trade, but Flash seems to integrate just fine with Python. Anyways, >> what are the technical reasons for this? >> > > - Flash is a proprietary technology requiring a proprietary plugin.
There seem to be at least two free implementations: Package: libswfdec0.3 Description: SWF (Macromedia Flash) decoder library A decoder library for Macromedia Flash animations, which are often found on web sites. This is the run-time portion of the library. Package: libflash0c2 Description: GPL Flash (SWF) Library - shared library The GPL Flash library is a set of functions that can be used by applications to play Flash movies. The core of the library is a portable graphic renderer that can be used to add SWF support to an application. . This package contains shared libraries needed to run programs that have been build against the library. > - There aint actually no working Flash plugin for Mozilla on a 64bit > processor - I just *can't* read Flash anims on my computer There are plugins based on the above libs. Maybe they work on 64 bit platforms. > - Flash is meant to display animations, not web content > - Flash content is not indexed by search engines > - Flash content cannot be manipulated by normal text/HTML/XML tools - In Flash you can't set bookmarks - In Flash you can't use your browser's navigation functions - You can't print animations > (x)html/css/js is neither 'clunky' nor 'antiquated' <http://www.csszengarden.com/> is a nice example what you can do with pure HTML and CSS Florian -- <http://www.florian-diesch.de/> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
