Many asking: Flash or Ajax?
* Dude, I am getting sick of this long flight, when is it going to be over? Hmm, don’t I wish there is Internet access over here 
There is no doubt the more you give the user power, the greater responsibility "bugs / reqs" you have. But anyway, since we fall in "# of members / day = $$$$$$$$" ratio, then we have to take the risk and sacrifice few coding principals…
I’ve started using ajax heavily after I started creating better algorithm on my server-side programming "mainly PHP" to protect my data and my sites has been working perfectly fine. And trust me on that cause from the server logs, many attempted to hack it but they failed…
But anyway, with Ajax popularity increasing, Adobe has realized they needed to push few notches to be able to catch up with the open web, and here they have increased the capability of Flash scripting allowing it to maximize its features such as sockets, storage, video, audio, etc… while we programmers still struggle to implement those features with HTML/JS/CSS…
We cannot ignore the fact we cannot live without JS, it is always needed for those enhancements that we need to implement, but then the more complex it becomes the more we struggle with its limitation. Limitation of Javascript can kill the user experience in many aspects, such as memory leakage, cross-browser comparability, and common bugs…"tsk: though, these things can be solved with few hacks here and there…"
So as you can see, both Ajax & Flash have Pros and Cons, so I guess the best way is to combine both tools to try to enhance the user experience. Well, let’s not forget about Apollo, how it allows you to bring your website "Ajax/CSS/server-side/etc" to desktop experience, which allows the user to work online and offline…. So far, it looks pretty interesting..
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Morad Rayyan is IT professional specialized in New Media development and has special interest in networking "routing" as well as programming.
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