Re: Awesome flash site... can swing do this?

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Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 06:44:05 GMT

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 21:39:45 GMT, Grant Wagner wrote:
> Rogue Chameleon wrote:
>> "Andrew Thompson" <SeeMySites@www.invalid> wrote in message...
>>>
>>> A site should be navigable and minimally functional with pure HTML.
>>
>> Agreed.... javascript is also evil.
>
> His comment does not say that. It says that a site should be navigable
> and minimally functional with pure HTML.

In fact, I'll go further. If as effect can be done in JS,
Java of Flash, Javascript would generally be the best
way to go.

Script may take sligthtly longer to load than the equivalent
Java or Flash, but you can rely on..
1) Higher overall market penetration*
2) Quicker 'start-up' than the JVM, though I am not sure about Shockwave.
3) A UI (written in HTML) that adjusts more easily to the
user's preferences.

* Note that even if JS did not have higher usage than either
Flash or Java, you need to also think of the Java/Flash implementations
that are effectively reliant on Javascript, a prominent example is
the output of HTMLConverter if the deployer selects 'all browsers/
all platforms'.

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