[UPHPU] Theory of the DOM

[cole at colejoplin.com]

Quoting jtaber <jtaber at johntaber.net>:
> Well, the topic sounds great but these videos are unplayable on Linux -
> now you see why proprietary Flash is bad for the web.

OK, I'm going to take great exception to that. Adobe is right now  
directing most of their development efforts into Flash on Linux. Flash  
is the #1 animation technology on the web. It's not going anywhere,  
and it's coming to Linux bigtime. It's just that someone has had to  
find a way to justify developing it osefor Linux. So they went after  
Windows and Apple first, that's just solid business decision-making in  
my book.

While the tool itself is proprietary, the export format is not. There  
are plenty of open-source projects, and 3rd party products to make  
Flash files. You can programmatically create SWF files, even from PHP.  
Consider the reason that many videos are now being presented inside  
Flash is because the new Flash 8 makes the whole MOV/AVI/RM player  
hassles obsolete. No more picking a video file format link, that often  
crashes anyway. How is any of that "bad" for the web?

I'm also not going to go to a place where I think a technology is bad  
for the web because it's not available on my preferred OS. That sounds  
eeirly like a Micro$oft mindset to me. On principle, and to be  
consistent, I'm forced to reject that notion out of hand. I like any  
technology that's trying to reach out to other OSes, 3rd party  
vendors, and open-source.

Animation on the web has a legitmate place, and deserves to be  
developed and embraced. Flash is the emerging animation technology  
standard. Technology doesn't just stop - for anyone, including  
Micro$oft. No matter how you slice it, that's a good thing.

-- Cole



Quoting jtaber <jtaber at johntaber.net>:

> Well, the topic sounds great but these videos are unplayable on Linux -
> now you see why proprietary Flash is bad for the web.
>
>
> Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
>> I found these three videos on the theory of the DOM very   
>> educational and interesting:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/yx97uh
>>
>>
>> Wade Preston Shearer
>>
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