Posted by ^reaper^ on 12/09/66 11:24

While sipping absinthe, Onideus Mad Hatter heard a loud sucking noise
coming from alt.2600, and hastily inscribed the following unintelligible
Sanskrit in <news:jj4bg1tg4t6aigembu3h5fpaft10rh9s04@4ax.com>:

> As far as I'm concerned if you can utilize PHP files within a Flash app,
> there simply isn't much need for JavaScript,

Not quite. You're making a callback to php serverside scripting using...
guess what? ECMAScript. Doih!

> Java or even HTML outside of just setting the height and width
> parameters of the flash file.

Or setting it up to launch in a flash player, just like some do with
applets, web3d, etc. *shrug*

> Also it should be noted that Flash isn't entirely graphical based,

No chit cherlock. Recall however, you're the one who claimed not that long
ago that 100% graphics interface was the way to go. Just as you then went
on to claim 100% js was the way to go. Iow, what makes your latest 100%
flash idea any different? Outside of, you know, t0rlling fodder? o_O

> that's a common misconception. Also, you don't need to have everything
> as one HUGE Flash file, you can break it apart into a lot of little
> flash files that can be accessed from one another.

Of course not. I assumed you were /at the very least/ intelligent enough
_not_ to serve /all/ of your content in one "HUGE Flash file."

> And speaking of the 3D side, Flash can actually do that far better than
> any other solution I'm aware of.

Really? o_O

> And then of course there's this:
>
> if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT))
> if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT))
> if (Key.isDown(Key.UP))
> if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN))
>
> Which would be REALLY nice as far as making games and so forth.

Oh yes. Flash games are teh schizitz.

http://www.goriya.com/flash/flash.shtml

*snicker*

> As you can see, Flash is pretty much the end all solution. I think
> I'm at a step beyond where the "tech industry is at today"...see my
> other post about including an RSS layer for future search engines and
> a primitive pure text layer for existing search engines and Lynx.

Actually, no. I can't see. Flash is hardly an /end all solution/. No more
than ejbs was an /end all solution/. As with _all tools_, flash has its
uses. As with _all tools_, it also has its limitations. Ymmv dep upon what
you're attempting to do. Though, at the rate you are going, you are likely
to crash into teh limitation barrier fairly soon. *smirk*

--
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes
you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body
upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the
apparatus, and you've got to make it stop." -- Mario Savio, (1943-1996)

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