Javascript vs Flash

A recent post by famed Flasher Paul Ortchanian, reflektions miniml, announced that he’s leaving Flash for Javascript. After his rant at Flash Forward last year on AS3, I’m not surprised. Though many in the industry will agree that Javascript is making some leap and bound advances lately, one also must agree Paul has made a huge blanket statement regarding Flash. His choice to totally abandon Flash for Javascript and Ajax just doesn’t make sense. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, and the proper technology should be chosen based on project needs.

I commented on his post, but he moderates comments before allowing them to be published. In lieu of this I thought I’d post my comment here as a blog post.

your palm pre link is broken (404). as is, in my opinion, your synopsis. good developers choose the right technology for the job, based on project goals. saying Javascript and AJAX is the appropriate choice for all digital-ad campaigns is a weird choice and a blanket statement. Javascript and AJAX may be the appropriate choice some of the time, as Flash may be some of the time. and sometimes a combination may be appropriate.

your post makes it seem like the two technologies must be mutually exclusive. an odd view, in my opinion.