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November 16th, 2005
More Flash vs. Ajax
by Joshua Porter | 
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Jonathan Bouttelle has an insightful post about the question that will only be asked more and more:
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1. CM Harrington on November 16th, 2005 (Comment) #
Very good article, and I agree, totally. His main point is if you want a truly interactive, immersive experience (games and similar), Flash is your only option. However, if you are text/image/information based, Flash isn’t necessarily the best tool, due to all the problems inherent when you embed what is basically a mini-environment into a web page (no back button, no status bar changes, no JAWS support, no default selecting/copying of text/images/links, no bookmarking, a larger footprint, no caching, etc)
One thing that struck me as odd. He mentioned that no one has yet added sound to an AJAX interface. I don’t think I’ve seen one either. However, there is nothing that says embedded files can’t be requested and triggered by user events. Perhaps there hasn’t yet been a need to have audio feedback in an AJAX app.
2. M Saleh EG [dotone] on November 19th, 2005 (Comment) #
CM, that’s not true, with Flex and Flash forms you can actualy have back button support since it is asynchronous with browser events!
no caching? it’s compiled! It don’t need to be cached. Even if needed, since it is binary the server caches it anyways.
I don’t know if you’ve read my take on AJAX vs. Flash since I’m running a relatively new blog.
My take in 2 rounds, I’d relate round2 of the article to this entry.
In all the cases I’m no biased to any of the sides but I don’t think AJAX beats Flash either.