Talk:Adobe Flash

First, I like this...

Some of the terminology in the introduction, such as vector graphics and client, may be slightly more technical than a non-CS reader will grasp. Alternatively, keep them, but have at least stub explanations where I put links. Do some searching first -- there may already be some articles but without quite having those names.

I know you have a section on competitors, but the relationship of Flash to other products and open components is really important, and deserves a little discussion in the introduction. Please understand I'm not an expert on webpage development; I can do some straight HTML and cautiously bring in a few other things.

Nevertheless, it clearly has competitors for animation. It seems to be very storage-efficient; I've seen the same content be smaller in a Flash than a PDF file --not sure if those are special cases.

You mention scripting languages, but that's a blurry area, with many languages of many levels of power. PHP and CSS sometimes are put there, although that's a bit dubious. When I hear "scripting language", I tend to think of Perl, Python, etc., which aren't as web-oriented (client side) as JavaScript. Either in this article, or perhaps in a separate overview, showing how the pieces relate would be useful. If you just want to focus on presentation and animation, perhaps "scripting language" is too broad a term.

Very interesting so far and I look forward to more. Howard C. Berkowitz 13:01, 30 July 2008 (CDT)

Thank you very much for your suggestions! I'm adding a section on the relationship of Flash to other products, and making more stub explinations and links. Ganggang Hu 18:27, 3 Aug 2008 (CDT)