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Talk of Flash's Demise Is Premature
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02/06/2006, By Jim Rapoza
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Sparkle proponents list all the great things it will do that Flash can't. Of course, they are comparing some future, sure-to-be-buggy-in-first-release product against a currently shipping product. Who knows what Flash will be capable of in a year?
And Flash has become pretty experienced at handling so-called killers. Over the years, it has faced Java, ActiveX and DHTML, as well as alternative Rich Internet Application technologies such as Curl and, of course, Captain Cold. (Oh, wait, he was the killer of The Flash.)
Recently, AJAX has been touted as a Flash killer, and while it is a much more legitimate threat than Sparkle, I tend to think of Flash and AJAX as complementary technologies.
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