Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web

nakhla writes: "This article at News.com details how Macromedia is expanding its Flash product to be more of an all-in-one web solution. Rather than relying on HTML codes to design web pages and embedding Flash as one component, Macromedia wants Flash to be used to design the entirety of a site. Pre-built components, such as scrollbars and buttons, are included to allow designers to write everything using the new Flash product. With websites becoming more and more complex, and the trend to move towards providing web services rather than application software, could something like this be the answer? The article also mentions how Macromedia is on a campaign to have its Flash plugin included in all Internet-compatible devices. How long before we see a Qt based plugin for the Qtopia handheld project?"

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Dynamic Tree widget for comments. Little + and - boxes to open up those comments below my threshold for the times I'd like to see what an AC wrote. While I tend to agree with you overall, there are features that a dynamic page app could implement that would improve the way I use /. JavaScript, Java, NNTP and others could do it as well.