Posted by Travis Newbury on 04/09/07 20:51

On Apr 9, 12:55 pm, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:
> That depends on the choice of encoding, some encodings are limited to one
> platform, which makes the choice of the OS where the encoding is done in a way
> affect which OS the user will have to see it.

Then that choice of encoding would probably not be a good choice for
trying to reach everyone would it?

> What I was saying was that developers choose to write application in a such
> manner that it's all to much work to port the application to other platforms
> than the original, while if they made sensible choices before they start to
> write the application, they then can port the application with little work to
> quite many other operating systems.

So let me get this straight, since Flash ports seamlessly to most
mainstream OSs regardless of the OS it was created on, Flash would be
considered good choice for application development.

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