I don't see flash becoming a dominant technology in the future. It's definitly not going to replace javascript. It wouldn't actually surprise me if it is going to die off really slowly... Only to be used in really specific cases.
Flash gets used a lot today because the flash video codec is good and because it's the easiest way to integrate some video into the browser without needed any plugins that might not be on everybody's computer. Flash is on 99.9% of the computers. Now that might change as well in the next 3 or 4 years as the video and audio tag are going to be more and more available to easily integrate video and audio files into a page. We would still need plugins anyway, but browser could at least integrate open sources plugins, like ogg... etc... I only use flash for multiple file uploads, and some small animations in the page itself. Ow and damn flash 10 has broken my file uploader, I'll have to work on that. Cheers, Johan Douma 2008/10/16 Breton Slivka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Read the story on that page carefully. What has happened is that flash > 10 has increased restrictions over what features within the flash > plugin can be invoked via javascript. This only applies to one > specific feature (file uploads), and effects virtually no other flash > features. It does not effect javascript's abilities in general, only > the abilities of javascript to use flash in certain ways. This point > will largely become moot once video/audio/3d/canvas becomes widespread > and built into browsers, and flash as a result becomes less relevant- > Particularly on low powered platforms like the iPhone, and Android > which do not have flash- or the wii which only has an older and > underpowered version of flash. > > So in my opinion, to the contrary- This news story is reporting on > decreased ability of the flash plugin to play well with javascript- It > will not make flash replace javascript- Except as a workaround in the > specific case of file uploads. > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Charles Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi Guys/Gals, > > > > I would like to get some opinion from you all, that would Flash 10 or ++ > > will replace JavaScript in the future? > > According to this blog : > > > http://ajaxian.com/archives/flash-10-and-the-bad-news-for-javascript-interaction > . > > > > I found that alot of media website started to replace Javascript to play > > their audio/video and of course Flash required to be install as third > > party plugin and had to be updated (which is annoying). Did you guys/gals > > use alot of flash in your past projects that you were working with? > > > > Cheers, > > Charles. > > > > ******************************************************************* > > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ******************************************************************* > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
