Posted by Travis Newbury on 10/05/07 17:56

On Oct 5, 9:58 am, Ben C <spams...@spam.eggs> wrote:
> > Flash itself is a web browser. It's also a virtual machine, we an
> > extremely powerful programming language at its core.
> Isn't its programming language very similar to/the same as JavaScript?

It is as similar as C++ is to Javascript.

> Does it leverage anything that can't be dreamed of with JS and HTML plus
> SVG?

Yes. One simple example I can think of is a flash object opened in one
browser can talk to and use methods and data in another flash object
opened in a completely different brand browser, which can do the same
with a Flash object embedded in a desktop application. Any Flash
opened on a computer can talk to any other flash object on that same
computer (cross domain security is included)

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