[thelist] SVG versus Flash?

[Erik Mattheis]

The only reasons to use SVG would be that you already know it and 
ensuring that your app will work on users machine is a non-issue. 
Making text look as crisp as thebrain.com's applet is tricky in 
Flash, but if crisp aliased text important, the hassle to do it would 
seem small compared to dealing with the reaction when you say, "Here 
it is! It's SVG!"

Not wanting to start a nauseating discussion, but clearing up the 
misinfo posted to this thread:

>Bad (Flash): It's proprietary

The SWF format has been open for years (http://www.openswf.org/ ) ... 
there are plenty of non-Macromedia tools to create SWFs that play in 
MM's free Flash Player.

>SVG can easily be created by ASP, PHP, Perl or whatever, and extracted
>from a database.

Anything that can be shown by the Flash player can be created/updated 
via a database ... you just need to produce text files with the 
backend software of your choice.

>* It [SVG] has a built-in ECMA-script (javascript) engine, so you 
>don't have to
>code per browser, and you don't need to learn Flash's action-script.

Same thing with ActionScript on all counts minus learning 
ActionScript, which IS ECMAscript compliant ... if you know 
JavaScript, learning ActionScript is just a matter of getting 
familiar with the Flash specific methods and properties.


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