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August 09, 2006
Compositional interactivity
Compositional interactivity: At O'Reilly, Nat Torkington describes the difficulty of adding JavaScript-based interactivity to arbitrary webpages -- even Mark Lukovsky of Google had difficulty adding mapping abilities to someone else's webpage. That webpage worked well for its audience and creators, but needed to be engineered to higher specifications to accept arbitrary content. SWF is easier to encapsulate, easier to add to unsuspecting pages. I think Nat is hoping that everyone developing content follows more closely the full set of documents describing best practices with HTML/JS/CSS, so that they don't inadvertently interfere with each other. But it may be easier to compose chunks together if the chunks are already discrete packages...?
Posted by JohnDowdell at August 9, 2006 09:39 AM
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