FW: [ale] macromedia & internet future

[Douglas Knudsen]

Speaking of Flash schtuff, play Pink Slip panic at www.killercartoons.com
The ultimate game/parody on the '.com downturn'

Yes, you can write games in Flash.  The stuff is replacing DHTML type
'splash' with mindless point and click gui filled IDEs from hell.  Well, at
least you don't have to write seperate scripts for each browser DOM you
encounter.  On a more serious note, Flash stuff has gotten much lighter than
in the past.  This is of course drowned out by filling your whole web
browser with it.

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-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of James
-> Kinney
-> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:08 AM
-> To: David S. Jackson
-> Cc: ale at ale.org
-> Subject: Re: [ale] macromedia & internet future
->
->
-> I saw a blurb about a perl-based flash writer that could do some amazing
-> things with text animations.
->
-> Flash is a pretty lightweight way to add some great animation
-> effects on a
-> web page. The closed source is a problem. I like the effects. I would be
-> happy if it were ported to Linux so I could use it at native
-> speed instead
-> of vmware (the generator, not the plugin).
->
-> At an ALE meeting a few months back, emediat demo'd their RadBuilder. It
-> does much of what flash does. It does require a different plugin,
-> available for Linux and M$ (no Mac). www.emediat.com  They are releasing
-> it open-source!
->
-> Security is always a concern when I don't have access to the source. I
-> don't know what type of "sandbox" flash plays in and they don't tell any
-> tech info. From what I have been able to deduce from the operation, it
-> hooks to the browser past the html rendering engine to use it to gain
-> access to the graphics device. Ditto for the sound. So it seems to run
-> with whatever permissions the browser runs with. I wouldn't run it as
-> root.
->
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