Flash is great, all platforms should have it!

[Onetrack]

just looks at the work here...


www.xeofreestyle.com

people say who needs flash.. pah.. back in the early 90's people said ' real computers don't need colour..'

please..

[teo]

Flash, hell no!

Check out the SVG standard at w3c. (scalable vector graphics) thou rocketh. Its described via XML so is easily created/edited by any programming language or text editor, its scriptable/interactive, and as its by w3c its functionally consistent with existing css and javascript techniques making it very accessible to existing html/js/css scripters. It can be compressed by gzip svgz so doesnt take up much bandwidth. Lets hope its adopted as the standard in future.

[mikeymike]

@ Onetrack

people say who needs flash.. pah.. back in the early 90's people said ' real computers don't need colour..'

Yes, but DECENT new technologies don't drop all the advantages its predecessor had!

[Darth_X]

sdesros wrote:
(Considering I make my living as a Java devoloper, I would prefer getting a JVM myself, but we all have our own preferences. )

Are there still opportunities for decent paying jobs programming in java?

[amigamad]

Forget flash i want java.

[sdesros]

by Darth_X on 2003/7/12 9:21:45

Quote:
sdesros wrote:
(Considering I make my living as a Java devoloper, I would prefer getting a JVM myself, but we all have our own preferences. )

Are there still opportunities for decent paying jobs programming in java?

Yes there are.  Although a lot of companies are not exactly on a hireing spree.  I'm not sure about Vancouver, but in Toronto, you'll need to be proficient with Enterprise Java Beans and assorted e-commerce centric technologies.  In Ottawa, it's pretty much all Telecom, and you're usually stuck with EMS and NMS software (JNI, RMI, CORBA being what you should look into).  If you're in Montreal, then you can look into Multimedia (I would gather they'd more aim towards Flash there. )...