Anne Truitt Zelenka

typical Powers insight on HTML evolution (including a bit about Adobe)

Declarative living for the timid.

How are they doing this? localhost proxy? Or browser-based storage?

“in the real world in the long term, maintainability is a really really big deal, the biggest of all.” Unfortunately, the people who build systems aren’t necessarily the ones who maintain them, so maintainability is often discounted.

“F3 attempts to demonstrate that … the Java platform is highly competitive with or superior to competing GUI development platforms such as Macromedia Flash/Flex/Open Laszlo, Adobe Apollo, Microsoft WPF/XAML, Mozilla XUL, AJAX/DHMTL.”

Fjax uses Flash only for XML parsing in the browser to bypass browser incompatibilities, otherwise it’s all the web stuff we’re used to. “Flash isn’t as scary as it used to be (politically as well as technically).” So true.