2008
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
InfoQ: Is XML the Future of UI Development?
Or is it JavaScript? A common trend in the new crop of desktop UI frameworks is that they are XML based with some sort of support for JavaScript. We take a brief look at AJAX, WPF/XAML, Flex/MXML, and Firefox’s Gran Paradiso.
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.
Flash is Ajax, or Flash versus Ajax, at the Ajax Summit
by 2 others (via)"One of the more interesting debates at the Ajax Summit this week concerned Flash and its relationship to or inclusion in Ajax. The discussion was more interesting because of the Flash demo that Kevin Lynch gave on the first day"
brevity.org -- Lickr: Flickr, without the Flash
by 13 others (via)Flickr is a popular photo hosting service that uses embedded Flash files as part of their interface. On every page, there will be a little delay while a new Flash file loads.
Lickr removes the need for Flash. It runs within the web browser Firefox, stripping the Flash before the user can even see it, and replacing it with an equivalent interface in pure HTML and Javascript.
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