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November 21, 2007

Zoho, Flash

Zoho, Flash: I posted a comment at a blog, but it was flagged as spam, and so am reposting it here. The folks at Zoho do their work in JavaScript, which is great, but I added some additional info and resources on Flash and browsers. No biggie, just getting it into the public record.

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Hi, here are some additional resources for each item which may be of interest:

(1) The different browsers have supported common extensions for as long as they've supported JavaScript. The current popular browsers all now can have JavaScript communicate with plugins, and also allow overlays for non-rectangular displays. They're improving their integration capabilities.

(2) Check out the overall efficiency and scope of various frameworks atop each runtime.

(3) SVG convergence has indeed increased. You can find current runtime capabilities here:
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/20070907/matrix.html

(4) ... and shared capability of current HTML/JS mobile runtimes here:
http://www.w3.org/2007/03/mth/harness

(5) Application startup time is a great metric to track, thanks. You may be thinking of Flex 2 applications, which did indeed preload a full interface framework to the client. Flex 3 changes this. For current benchmarking of in-browser application startup times, check out James Ward's excellent testing application:
http://www.jamesward.org/census/


"we will use Flash when appropriate, but at this point, Javascript is getting better faster!"

I think the opposite would make a better case, but that's your decision to make. Thanks for letting me post some additional resources here.

jd/adobe

Posted by JohnDowdell at November 21, 2007 7:30 PM