[Javascript] flash v dhtml

Fri Jun 29 14:36:00 CDT 2001

As far as I'm concerned, when using dial up connections I always skip Flash pages. They are usually very heavy 100 kb <...
Comparing to DHTML I personally think that they are almost equal, except some vector graphic font manipulations, nice alpha filtering, but both are two dimensional. !you can use vectors in DHTML also.
I prefer DirectX more than both, but still don't know much about it.
Same problem, user has to download the Flash engines before he can preview the content if he haven't done it before. DirecX comes with windows operating system, it is also incorporated in the browser, so it gives you less trouble.

Here, for instance: try the power of the DirectX (less than 1.3 kb of code, and yet 3D manipulation), absolutely different experience.

<HTML>
<body bgcolor=navy>
<script language="Jscript" for="Seq" event="oninit">
    Seq.item("ActionSet1").At(0.000, "RotateAll()",730, .0050);
    Seq.item("ActionSet1").Play();
</script>
<script language="JScript">
function RotateAll() {
 sgMSDHTML.Rotate(1.2, -1.2, -1.2);
 sgMSDHTML.scale(1.005,1.005,1.005);
}
</script>
<object id="Seq"
 classid="CLSID:B0A6BAE2-AAF0-11d0-A152-00A0C908DB96"
 align="baseline" border="0" width="0" height="0">
</object>
<object
id="sgMSDHTML"
 classid="CLSID:369303C2-D7AC-11d0-89D5-00A0C90833E6"
 align="baseline" border="0" width="14" height="14"
 style="Position:Absolute; HEIGHT:400px; WIDTH:700px; Top:15%; border:inset 3 blue;
Left:2%;background-color:black">
<param name="Line0001" value="SetLineColor(255,255,255)">
<param name="Line0003" value="SetFillSTYLE(1)">
<param name="Line0004" value="SetLineSTYLE(0)">
<param name="Line0002" value="SetFillColor(0,200,255)">
<param name="Line0005" value="SetFont('haettenschweiler',140,850)">
<param name="Line0006" value="Text('Trojani', -120, 0, 0)">
<param name="Line0007" value="Text('2000', -45, 115, 0)">
</object>
</body>
</html>

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Dunn
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 8:13 AM
To: javascript at LaTech.edu
Subject: [Javascript] flash v dhtml

Hi,
   What do people think about using flash instead of dhtml? What are the
cons and pros of using both? I don't know how to use flash and I was
wondering what sort of things are capable with it? One thing that would be
attractive I guess is that you do not have to worry about cross-browser
issues.

Andrew

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