Robert Walker wrote: [...] > Haven't you heard? Flash has passed it's prime, and is dying a slow and > painful death.
I hope that's not true. Flash is a great tool for sites that require it (see http://www.openstreetmap.org for an example of Flash used appropriately -- with Rails, as it happens). But I'd estimate that well over 90% of sites using Flash shouldn't be. > I don't even consider Flash when thinking about building > web based applications anymore. Not even if I want an application on the > web that feels and acts like a desktop application. There are too many > excellent solutions today that make use of modern web standards that web > browsers can run natively without depending on plugins. Exactly. > > A couple of examples: > http://cappuccino.org/ # My personal favorite Really? I've heard bad things about it. > http://www.sproutcore.com/ > http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ # My least favorite, but viable > > The great thing about these solutions is that they don't care what's on > the server-side. At least that's the case for the first two in the list, > I am only assuming it's true for GWT, but I'm not certain. AFAIK, it is. GWT compiles to client-side JavaScript. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
