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I think people probably would. But I am of the opinion that Flash is slowly but surely dying in favour of JavaScript and related technologies. Flash still has
by halo 18y ago
I think people probably would.
But I am of the opinion that Flash is slowly but surely dying in favour of JavaScript and related technologies. Flash still has its niche for streaming audio and video and a few other things that would be otherwise be a pain to write, but they don't really justify the existence of Silverlight which has largely marketed itself as "a better Flash".
- Kaizyn 18y agoThis isn't entirely correct. If you're just talking about enhancing a web page, then ok sure Javascript is more widely used. However, if you're talking about building Rich Internet Applications, Flex is many lightyears ahead of what JavaScript has to offer.
- river_styx 18y agoHow so? I mean, what can you accomplish with Flex that you can't also accomplish with modern javascript frameworks?
- jamongkad 18y agoI never truly understood what Flex is all about. Could someone please elaborate?
- swaroop 18y agoTry out some of the example applications at http://degrafa.org/samples/ http://degrafa.org/samples/ and try to guess how long it would take you to write those samples using modern javascript frameworks vs how long it would take to write using Flex/Flash.
- halo 18y agoSure. But comparatively few of those samples represent things that you would actually want to use in the real world, while there is a lot of overly shiny eye-candy, poor user interfaces and non-native widgets - things that Flash has always been notorious for. Flash has always served a niche for what HTML and JavaScript can't easily do; the problem is that over time this is diminishing, and it's looking like over the long term Canvas and SVG will be one more nail in the coffin.
- gruseom 18y agoFlex is many lightyears ahead of what JavaScript has to offer. Then why are there overwhelmingly more Javascript apps than Flash ones?