NYCPHP Meetup

[csnyder]

On 9/29/05, Mark Armendariz <nyphp at enobrev.com> wrote:

> Flash is so much more developer-friendly these days.  I still hate the ide
> and think it should be beaten to bits (haven't played with 8 yet, so don't
> hate me if it's improved - thankfully that's for the designers to deal
> with), but development is so much more rewarding than it once was.
>

A non-geek friend of mine from SF knows a bunch of people who code for
Macromedia, and says they are always talking about "this PHP thing".
They have been actively promoting Flash+PHP for a couple years now. I
wish the Flash IDE was higher quality, but then that's really the
designer's domain.

Flash+actionscript+php (FLAP?) is a pretty killer platform for rich
web applications, and not subject (to the best of my knowledge) to the
same class of cross-site-scripting attacks that AJAX apps are. The
biggest problem for me is the lack of an open-source player. If
Macromedia/Adobe decides to start selling ads on top of your
application, or includes spyware in the player, what are you going to
do about it?