Flash and Open Source

Posted by timothy on Monday April 15, 2002 @07:36AM from the looming-courthouse-perhaps dept.

Anders Schneiderman asks: "I'm involved in a project that's planning to create open source toys for educating people around complicated policy questions (e.g., policy on prescription drugs). We'd really like to use Flash as our main language, but we're concerned about the fact that the major Flash development tools cost $500--more than some of the community group folks we want to involve can afford. I took a look at Sourceforge, and while there are plenty of projects that offer ways to create Flash for free, there didn't seem to be any v.1 general development tools. Did I miss something? If you want to build Flash and you don't want to pay $500, how do you do it (aside from copying somebody else's, which as Bill Gates told us is just bad, bad, bad)? And if there aren't any powerful open source tools for it, any thoughts on why?"

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Re:DON'T DO IT! by the_2nd_coming · 2002-04-15 07:48 · Score: 2, Troll

dude
you can use flash to develope powerful clientside applications that load faster and look nice than Java and there is no need for serverside crap so no reloading the webpage.

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Re:Nothing Found by the_2nd_coming · 2002-04-15 08:05 · Score: 0, Troll

and you are still using flash. the parent was saing you could get flash features by just using PHP. youhave just shown me that PHP still needs flash.

PHP is good for loading pages that are diffrent for each user, but it is not good for taking live data and spitting out an answer in the same page with out a reload.

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Ok Ok, I made a mistake...... by jsimon12 · 2002-04-15 08:13 · Score: 0, Troll

Please drop the thread guys, I was wrong, flash isn't Lingo, I am sorry. My bad, Flash still is crap though.