[Wolves] Flash alternative - is there?

[sparkes]

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 15:53, Matthew Revell wrote:
> Old Dan wrote:
> 
> > Cheers guys - looks like I'll have to stick with Flash.
> >
> There's always Swish, if that's still around. It's cheap - if not free - 
> and, while less advanced than the Flash generator, it still creates SWV 
> files.
The flash format is open which is why swish and things can exist they
use LGPL engines such as openswf.

If you really don't want to use Macromedia Flash for the file generation
then you can programmatically generate flash from most scripting
languages.

This really only comes into it's own when you want a file that does
loads of wizbang things but it will get you out of the Macromedia
software trap.

As for svg I don't think this is viable as pretty much every browser
needs to download a plugin and you would be stuck using javascript to
interact with it anyway running into differences between javascript
(ecmascript) and jscript again.

as for moving divs in html you need to write three versions one for
browsers that understand html 4+ and real javascript, one for those that
understand html 4+ and jscript and another for those that have problems
with any of the above.

would either stick with flash or don't bother ;-)

sparkes