[mtasc] About Open-Source Flash

[Timo Stamm]

John Giotta wrote:
> SVG will not contend with Flash. SVG does not deliver rich media as
> well Flash (if at all).

You can embed more data types in SVG than in SWF files. Animation, 
interaction via JavaScript, images and video are all standardized. 
Because SVG is based on XML, and therefore has namespaces, it is 
possible to use a graphics editor on a SVG file that embeds unkown 
datatypes without losing the data.

Anyway, I agree that it is just not feasible to use SVG. It is much 
easier to use Flash, even though SVG is technically superior.

I think that Sparkle, SVG and whatever Adobe/Macromedia will do with SWF 
and PDF will be in direct competition as presentation layers for web 
based applications in a few years.


Timo