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Flash and AJAX

December 9th, 2005, By Ovi Demetrian Jr

During the second meeting of , a local community of designers and developers, it occurred to me that there is a noticable devide between (formerly Macromedia) Flash fans and (don’t call it) AJAX fans. While both seem to be using the technologies for similar purposes, each group sticks by their prefered method.

While it may look like , Flash can still do more than what AJAX has shown us so far. tells us . Even though he includes a few things Flash doesn’t work so well with and which AJAX handles better, in the end, Flash’s features outweigh AJAX’s.

Of all the ‘online desktop’ apps popping up online, the Flash desktop is better than the AJAX desktop. And so is compared to .

So then, why does AJAX appear to be leading the way for Web 2.0 applications? The answer seems to be in the development process. AJAX uses Javascript and XHTML/CSS which makes programming an application very dynamic when it comes to making code changes. Flash has the more traditional method of compiling the application, so code changes can sometimes be a little more difficult to work with.

Being primarily a designer, I prefer Flash because of its capabilities with interface design and interaction. From this perspective, there is so much more that Flash has already done than AJAX is currently even capable of doing.

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