Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/07/07 20:13

SpaceGirl wrote:
> Phil Payne wrote:
>>
>> I had to boot up the old ThinkPad Transnote - 600MHz Pentium on Talk-
>> talk broadband. Only took around thirty seconds to get going here.
>>
>> Couldn't find the no-mouse or audio substitution support.
>>
>
> For a 3d environment? Are you kidding? You think you can play xbox games
> without a joypad?
>
> Flash is just one presentational layer. In this case I was trying to
> demonstrate that even alternative UIs, such as 3D or audio, are easily
> achieved. There's no way to do this sort of thing in HTML + JS. If there
> is a requirement to present the content via other UIs, then you do it.
> It's not a big deal. I'm bemused by the all or nothing attitude some
> folks have in here.
>

The point is it has limited practical application. I would hate to
browse eBay in a virtual 3-d shopping buddy regardless of the connection
speed. Flash is just not the "bee's knees" for everything.


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Jonathan
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