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[Tim Gales]

Jon Baer writes:
> ive been playing around w/ a copy of Flash MX lately + 
> wrapping my head around ActionScript 2.0 .. im just curious 
> what the general feedback about it would be?  does anyone 
> here wear a Flash hat?  i used to liken it to be VisualBasic 
> for the web but ive noticed alot more people using it for 
> widgetry w/ XML which seems pretty cool (albeit nothing you 
> probably couldn't accomplish w/ DHTML + PHP) ..
> 
> any good resources? i found flashkit.com which had a load of 
> .fla's to play w/ ..
> 
> programming wise it would be nice to see PHP5/Ming OO, exists?
> 
> also, can anyone shed lite on what (or where) Flash Lite 1.1 
> might be running?

Flush lite (from MuckYo'Media) might be running on 
some D505i (Mitsubishi) cell phones in Japan -- 
that is, it is possible to run the content on the  
cell phones since they have the player installed.

In order to get European handset manufacturers to 
consider 'lite', the software manufacturer had to 
guarantee that the 'lite' player would be SVG-T 
conformant.

This may be because European manufacturers want to 
remain flexible and have the ability to play SVG-T 
content as well -- I don't look at it that way. 
(SVG seems technically superior to me -- 
but I am certainly no expert) 

I don't know if the Japanese handsets can play 
both formats -- but it is probably a good bet that  
they can (that is, that the D505's can play SVG-T also). 


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