RE: 2 cents on the context menu

I thought that the http://www.youngpup.net/ page Andrew was mentioning shows
how far you can go with javascript if your focus is on visually refined
"moving divs" without flash... CB.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Flanagan
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 1:25 AM
> To: netWindows development discussion list
> Subject: Re: [NW-Devel] 2 cents on the context menu
> 
> 
> alan hill wrote:
> > Speaking of Flash, is there any particular reason people 
> have for not
> > wanting to use it?  I used to be quite anti-flash and am still 
> > flash-sceptic, but I think MX 2004 kind of represents a 
> tipping point 
> > for me where the ease of development it provides begins to 
> seriously 
> > outweigh any concerns I have about it.
> > 
> > I suppose what I am asking is: what is the fundamental motivation 
> > behind
> > the development of netWindows?
> 
> The whole issue of the plugin is the clincher. Is is a 
> standard? No. Can 
> you gaurentee that it's present in a given browser? No. Do 
> you have any 
> recourse if Macromedia changes somthing in a new version of 
> the plugin 
> that then causes your application not to work? No. Heck, do 
> they have a 
> version built for OpenVMS on Alpha? I'd bet against it.
> 
> It's much easier to just stick with browsers that implement enough of 
> the CSS/CSS2 standard to get you by. I know that I can run on any 
> platform so long as it has the latest version of the users choice of 
> browser installed on it. If they're going to try doing it with Lynx, 
> I'll tell them where to go ;)
> 
> Can my app run on *BSD on some strange architecture? Yep. I 
> don't need 
> to worry that browsers are going to start purposly diverging from the 
> standard or stop implementing it.
> 
> The whole point of a standard is so you don't have to worry 
> about stuff 
> changing under you. Yes you can do Cool Stuff(tm) with Flash. Would I 
> bet the farm on it? No.
> 
> <rant>
> Heck, it's bad enough with the Sun Community Process. Look at 
> the crap 
> the *BSD's have to go through to ship a stinking binary of 
> the vm with 
> each release. FreeBSD only managed it after some lawer wrangling with 
> Sun, and OpenBSD doesn't currently have 'permission.' And 
> they call Java 
> an open development platform? Hah!
> </rant>
> 
> Flash is completely propriatary. I'd use it on snazz up a 
> website, but 
> not to develop a mission critical app with.
> 
> --Michael
> 
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