On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:

> (On Macromedia's Flash)
>
> As a proof of concept, I wrapped the high-level API and made it
> available to Ruby programs. (I translated the sample programs that
> Macromedia produced into Ruby and put the results up at
> http://www.pragprog.com/flash. Don't expect anything fancy, these just 
> exercise each of the different APIs). I don't think it would be hard
> to move forward to wrap the low-level API.
> 
Cool.

> I'm not a web designer, but it strikes me that this could be a major
> application area for Ruby: Ruby's Zope.
> 
> So, what do people think? Is this worth putting effort into? How could 
> it be developed. Is the Macromedia licensea problem? Could this be a 
> killer app?
> 
I dont know since I'm not familiar with Flash or web dev. However, I
recently heard of some related stuff for Perl. FYI:

http://www.twoshortplanks.com/simon/flash/
http://www.the-labs.com/PerlFlash/

Regards,

Robert