Re: [Fsfe-uk] Flash problems are bad programmers - Macromedia

[Ian Lynch]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 19:20, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 19:14 +0000, Robin Green wrote:
> > Java fan chipping in here. There is actually a key difference between
> > Java and Flash here, I think. Java now has a free implementation which
> > can now finally run some applets:
> > 
> >  http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gcjwebplugin/
> > 
> > There's no Free Flash implementation yet, is there?
> 
> There are a couple, actually.
> 
> Thing is, it's kind of missing the point - Java and Flash have entirely
> different markets, and I suspect the market for Java interfaces plugged
> into browsers died quite some time ago (I guess they still live on in
> content management, but...). Java is just a completely different
> technology to Flash.

Glad you said that, I was beginning to think I was missing something
fundamental :-)

-- 
Ian Lynch <address@hidden>
ZMS Ltd