Just A Summary : Flash and Javascript, sitting in a tree...

Comment on Flash and Javascript, sitting in a tree... by Asbjørn Ulsberg

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:20:18 -0500

What irks me to ask after reading this is: Why use Flash? I haven’t seen this application, nor do you describe it in any way, but if it’s possible to extract parts from the binary Flash blob and re-create them with Ajax and SVG, then that would be the most interoperable, gracefully degradable and accessible route to go.

Comment on Flash and Javascript, sitting in a tree... by Piers Cawley

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:15:44 -0500

Yes, you’re absolutely right. When AJAX and SVG can do everything that Flash can do on as many browsers, I’ll be only too glad to use them.

Credit me with the sense to know that the application we have in mind (which I’m not at liberty to talk about here in anything but the vaguest terms) does need features that we can only get from Flash.

Comment on Flash and Javascript, sitting in a tree... by Tim Connor

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:11:06 -0500

The legacy way that has the widest browser support is fscommand, and you shouldn’t even need a specialist – it’s actually not that painful. Drop me a line if you need and I can shoot you a more detailed answer, but google and the macromedia online docs (unless adobe killed them all) knows it all anyways.

Comment on Flash and Javascript, sitting in a tree... by Tim Connor

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:13:27 -0500

Actually I don’t recall off the top of my head, but you may not even need to the fscommand for the other way, it may “just work.” How are you trying now?

Comment on Flash and Javascript, sitting in a tree... by Tim Connor

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:15:08 -0500

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flashjavascript/

Comment on Flash and Javascript, sitting in a tree... by Tim Connor

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:17:57 -0500

Ya, I thought I remembered the newer way. Sorry for the serial posts, but here is the slicker way to do it in Flash 8 forward: http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=3&;cid=0922A

Comment on Flash and Javascript, sitting in a tree... by Giles Bowkett

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:36:26 -0500

fwiw, I feel your pain. I worked on a project kinda similar and Flash can be a total pain. We used the Flash/JS bridge, I don’t think that’s even the dominant approach any more, but it wasn’t that bad. The real pain was getting Flash to work period. The Flash docs were inaccurate, the APIs were incomplete, nothing quite worked as you’d expect. And this was just on Firefox. You get cool features with Flash, but they come at a price.