2008
jQuery Flash Plugin
by 10 othersInspired by tools like SWFObject, UFO and sIFR, but written line-by-line for jQuery — no other scripts required. Less redundancy (jQuery and sIFR both find elements by css selectors and do browser detection, sIFR and SWFObject both do Flash detection) m
Shadowbox.js Media Viewer
by 6 othersShadowbox is a cross-browser, cross-platform, cleanly-coded and fully-documented media viewer application written entirely in JavaScript.
2007
Questions sur l’avenir du Web : ma réponse [nota-bene.org]
Ce ne sont, simplement, pas les mêmes cibles qui sont visées [par flash et HTML]. D’un côté du sexy animé (court terme et marketing), d’un autre de la stabilité et de la pérennité (« contenus » au sens noble).
2005
Kevin Lynch: Flash is your friend in Web 2.0
by 1 other (via)This is not about Flash vs. HTML or Ajax. It's using Flash + HTML with the Ajax approach to build Web 2.0 applications (to be fully buzzword compliant).
Midnight Coders Release A .NET Server For AJAX and Flash Apps
(via)Midnight Coders releases the WebORB Presentation Server - a development platform for connecting AJAX and Flash clients with .NET applications. Supported clients include JavaScript and Flash, while server-side support includes any J2EE-compliant server, Microsoft.NET environment, ColdFusion Components, as well as any XML web service.
Jeffrey Zeldman : JK Rowling site goes accessible Flash route
(via)On the one hand, it demonstrates how accessible a Flash-based site can be. On the other, it shows how many expensive experts it may take to make a deep Flash site accessible.
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