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+It sounded like the panel-most-likely-to-start-a-real-life-flame-war, so I dropped in on the Flash versus Javascript talk this afternoon to try and gain a sense of where web developers stand on the issue these days.
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+The panel had a lone moderator, Jonathon Boutelle of [uzanto.com][1]. Boutelle's angle was that to create truly compelling sites developers need to take advantage of both AJAX and Flash technologies.
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+A quick audience survey showed that the room was pretty evenly split between AJAX and Flash developers, which played well with Boutelle's messages that you don't have to choose between the two. As Boutelle quipped, "Flash doesn't kill people, people kill people."
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+That said, Boutelle's first slide was entitled "Keep Flash on a Leash," which seems to be the general direction of online apps these days -- Flash as a kind of "nugget," to use Boutelle's term. In this case Boutelle described using Flash to embed fonts and vector graphics which is difficult to do in other languages.
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+So rather than the competitive environment I was expecting Boutelle spoke of a programming environment in which developers will increasingly become AJAX-Flash crossover programmers comfortable in both and aware of the strengths and weakness of each. 
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+Speaking of flame wars, I've noticed a pretty healthy mix of Mac and Windows OS (overwhelmingly still XP on the Windows boxes) among conference attendees, glancing around the panels usually puts things at about 50/50. I've yet to see anyone using Linux, though I have no doubt many are.
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+[1]: http://www.uzanto.com/ "Uzanto"
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