Flash or Ajax?

3 points by sangguine 18y ago ↗ HN

Hi. I was wondering which of the two you would prefer to use to display photos, Flash or Ajax (javascript). And any cons and pros of each?

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breily 18y ago ↗

I've never used Flash extensively so I'm not sure of the exact pros and cons of each, but as a user, I will go out of my way to avoid sites that use Flash. Javascript can display photos just fine, and doesn't slow down my entire computer.

makecheck 18y ago ↗

"Graceful degradation" is pretty important, and there is no way to even display Flash if a user doesn't have a player. Whereas, it is at least possible to do fancy things with AJAX that can be dumbed-down for clients that do not support JavaScript.

thomasswift 18y ago ↗

Any sort of fancy transitions flash gives you more options(easily).