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Paul A Houle wrote:
> Gary Mort wrote:
>> I've never been able to justify buying a big flash developer package 
>> just to play around with flash....
>>
>    To stick up for Adobe (which I rarely do),  I will say that the 
> flash authoring tool from Adobe is pretty awesome.
>    The quality of the authoring tool,  I believe,  is one of the big 
> reasons why Flash has been successful.  Somebody with a visual 
> arts/graphic design background can pick up the tools,  do the 
> tutorials,  and be making amazing animations in hours.
>
>    From the viewpoint of a developer,  it's not quite so amazing,  but 
> personally,  if you're interested in doing Flash and if you think your 
> time is worth more than $0 an hour,  the Flash authoring tool is a 
> worthwhile investment.
>
>    On the flipside,  I've been doing Silverlight for the last two 
> years and I think it's a much better environment,  for developers,  
> than Flash is,  constrained by the problem that not so many people 
> have it installed.  The app contains a mapping system which is vastly 
> more powerful than anything I've seen in a web-based application,  be 
> it Google Maps or something flash-based.  Although it's not quite as 
> featureful,  it draws complex maps as quickly as ARC/GIS does and 
> makes our competitor's Flash-based and Javascript-based apps look 
> entirely uncompetitive.
>
>    Other than that,  I also tend to be disappointed w/ the performance 
> of AIR apps.  One of my major complaints about the desktop twitter 
> clients that are floating around is that most of them are AIR based,  
> leak memory,  and cause all sorts of problems.  Hypothetically there's 
> the advantage that AIR apps run on Macs,  but practically,  AIR apps 
> spin the CPU on my mac at 100% (even when they are doing nothing) and 
> make it sound like a helicopter taking off.
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You should be looking at aptana... http://www.aptana.org/

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