Nowadays the use of Flash for a website is fairly common and is widely spread throughout Chat applications all across the web. Most of them are based on Flash in order to achieve quick results in a working production environment. Being one of the few Instant Messaging Applications out on the market that are based on JavaScript, we often get asked: “toksta, why don’t you guys use Flash?”.
This Article is for all Customers that have been wondering and I am going to show you why:
Flash on its own is a wonderfully interactive technology and can impress the viewer very easy, but on the other hand it has one major downturn: It is absolutely positioned. So in order to provide our customers with the impressions of Flash we have coded a Javascript frontend, which you all know as the toksta Instant messenger.
Choosing Javascript over Flash was an easy choice, because it enabled us to give the ability to Theme and redesign right into your hands. With our easy and intuitive interface we gave you the ability to completely redesign our messenger with the power of CSS, which entitles you do to pretty much do whatever you want!
With the pure force of style rules in CSS you have the possibility to move things around or even to completely replace them, when you want it. There is no further interaction needed but a Designer who knows his job to unleash the ultimate freedom we provide. And in order to give that freedom to our customers, we choose Javascript and CSS over Flash.
Tags: flash, javascript, technology
