Flash is the killer app and half of you wont realise it till its too late.
Sure it can take long to download but how many people in 6 years will have broadband?
How many web applications are used internally where this isn't a problem such as intranets?
How many commercial or decent sites still have large animated gifs. The Animated gifs period in internet history is where flash is at now, but what about the future? How many applications can you write which look the same and act the same on all platforms and even pdas without a change.
Why should the internet not mimic conventional desktop apps that many are used to?
Once flash accesibility is improved and search engines can index flash contentent html is as good as dead.
Look at xml it's really not more than glorified text files which have to be parsed, not very efficient yet people use it today.
In recent articles in java magazines, authors have accepted that flash is what applets and *swing* shoudl have been!
Once people start to use it right and we see some good uses we'll see rapid adoption. The problem is marketing, if more leading sites utilised flash correctly a lot more of people would realise this.
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Flash is the killer app and half of you wont realise it till its too late.
Sure it can take long to download but how many people in 6 years will have broadband?
How many web applications are used internally where this isn't a problem such as intranets?
How many commercial or decent sites still have large animated gifs. The Animated gifs period in internet history is where flash is at now, but what about the future? How many applications can you write which look the same and act the same on all platforms and even pdas without a change.
Why should the internet not mimic conventional desktop apps that many are used to?
Once flash accesibility is improved and search engines can index flash contentent html is as good as dead.
Look at xml it's really not more than glorified text files which have to be parsed, not very efficient yet people use it today.
In recent articles in java magazines, authors have accepted that flash is what applets and *swing* shoudl have been!
Once people start to use it right and we see some good uses we'll see rapid adoption. The problem is marketing, if more leading sites utilised flash correctly a lot more of people would realise this.