but the point is
that if adobe stops developing flash then in maybe after 5-6 years so javascript will catch up……..

we always see — make flash like rotate effect in javascript and they will give whole chunks of code….

but believe me it flash is way ahead in its technology right now and will be ahead in the future

sir with all due respect …. have u gone mad….

what are u saying… with flash u can directly send values to php there is no javascript involve anywhere……

and 95% people hav flash so its not a matter of availability… so people who open internet once in a while also have flash………….

crashing…. flash does not crash i have been working for 10 years on flash and javascript and i have never seen it crashing……..

what else size…. believe size is way to smaller in flash as it uses vector so if u wanna have a black translucent box behind your text for anim. you dont need a png (about 80 kb) while flash will do it in 1kb

and have u guys seen javascript anim its jittery so unprofessional …..

really i find flash is better than javascript in all ways and its a worthy one time investment……..

Now when it comes to animation I believe Flash has more capabilities than JQuery as far as customization. Jquery may be good for galleries and up and down movements but for the real animation Flash is King, not to mention other 3 D rendering tools. I believe both Flash and Jquery can be merged into one application and that would be awesome.

Even if you are good with flash, you still have to use javascript to retrieve values from objects in flash.

Jquery, in all its glory, its glorified javascript. I never saw the power in using a function that already exists and rewording it to sound as jquery makes it sound.

I am still amazed at this discussion and lack of overall global thinking on the technologies we use. The browser based experience was created page by page because of our slow connections and need to break data down for ease of access.

with data rates increasing, so should our experience and the bloat and overall repetative data we send over the internet for page by page surfing is ridiculous.

We continue to extend a terrible system such as a tag based language just because that is what we all feel comfortable with, adding javascript, plugins for flash, both parties are all to blame.

big picture is we should have a browser and an experience that is fully OOP and backed by a full high level language period.

I would like to see a high level language system like flash’s abilities embedded right into the browser. Google is working on doing this with chrome I believe.

The old days of page by page traversing on the web are gone, or should be, and we need to realize the potential of the web and how to best utilize our speeds. What’s 500kb anymore with our speeds when you can have the entire site there at your fingertips locally. You would rather go through 10 pages of 80kb downloads?