Re: XML & Flash

[John Dowdell]

At 6:59 PM 3/25/98, Bob James wrote:

>Webmonkey has an interesting article entitled "Vector Graphics -- Image

>Format of the Gods." In it, Jeffrey Veen talks about how Flash could become

>a standard in at least one 5.0 browser, but could be used universally if

>paired with XML.

>http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/98/12/index0a.html?tw=eg199812



Thanks for the link, Bob. There's a parallel discussion in the Fireworks

newsgroup, too.


XML is great as a transport format, but I'm not sure of it as a delivery

format. Extensible Markup Language files prioritize comprehensibility over

compactness... shooting from the hip, a Flash movie described as XML might

be ten to twenty times larger.


Have you been looking into XML, yourself...?


jd




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