<HTML><BODY STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV>As far as I'm concerned, when using dial up connections I always skip Flash pages. They are usually very heavy 100 kb <...</DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV>I prefer DirectX more than both, but still don't know much about it.</DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Here, for instance: try the power of the DirectX (less than 1.3 kb of code, and yet 3D manipulation), absolutely different experience.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><HTML><BR><body bgcolor=navy><BR><script language="Jscript" for="Seq" event="oninit"><BR> Seq.item("ActionSet1").At(0.000, "RotateAll()",730, .0050);<BR> Seq.item("ActionSet1").Play();<BR></script><BR><script language="JScript"></DIV> <DIV>function RotateAll() {<BR> sgMSDHTML.Rotate(1.2, -1.2, -1.2);<BR> sgMSDHTML.scale(1.005,1.005,1.005);<BR>}<BR></script></DIV> <DIV><object id="Seq"<BR> classid="CLSID:B0A6BAE2-AAF0-11d0-A152-00A0C908DB96"<BR> align="baseline" border="0" width="0" height="0"><BR></object></DIV> <DIV><object<BR>id="sgMSDHTML"<BR> classid="CLSID:369303C2-D7AC-11d0-89D5-00A0C90833E6"<BR> align="baseline" border="0" width="14" height="14"<BR> style="Position:Absolute; HEIGHT:400px; WIDTH:700px; Top:15%; border:inset 3 blue;<BR>Left:2%;background-color:black"></DIV> <DIV><param name="Line0001" value="SetLineColor(255,255,255)"><BR><param name="Line0003" value="SetFillSTYLE(1)"><BR><param name="Line0004" value="SetLineSTYLE(0)"><BR><param name="Line0002" value="SetFillColor(0,200,255)"><BR><param name="Line0005" value="SetFont('haettenschweiler',140,850)"><BR><param name="Line0006" value="Text('Trojani', -120, 0, 0)"><BR><param name="Line0007" value="Text('2000', -45, 115, 0)"></DIV> <DIV></object><BR></body><BR></html></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: black"><B>From:</B> Andrew Dunn</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 29, 2001 8:13 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> javascript@LaTech.edu</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Javascript] flash v dhtml</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>Hi,<BR> What do people think about using flash instead of dhtml? What are the<BR>cons and pros of using both? I don't know how to use flash and I was<BR>wondering what sort of things are capable with it? One thing that would be<BR>attractive I guess is that you do not have to worry about cross-browser<BR>issues.<BR><BR>Andrew<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Javascript mailing list<BR>Javascript@LaTech.edu<BR>http://www.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML><br clear=all><hr>Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : <a href='http://explorer.msn.com'>http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></p>