Does Flajax make sense?Well, the word in itself maybe not, I just made that up myself.But as you probably guess I'm talking about using Flash and AJAX together.After my last post that also involved Flash and AJAX, "Right tool for the job....or right job for the tool?", I came across the following blog entry:Ajax and Flash TogetherSome good examples of AJAX and Flash integration and I couldn't help to ask myself a couple of questions.In what way does it affect me as a user if the buttons controlling flash is in the HTML page or part of the swf?Looking at Yahoo finance and Google finance I really have difficult to see that the user would have advantages or disadvantages from an AJAX mix compared to only Flash. The only case would be if there is browser incompatabilities with JS or that they lack the flash plugin.Obviously buttons is no good without graph and vice versa, so not having to rely on two separate technologies being available as expected is better.But to me it could just as well be one big swf...I would not notice any difference apart from when I right click.On the google page I can agree that it's neat how it highlights the headlines to the left when you click the corresponding box in the graph.Using HTML for those headlines makes it possible to completely retain their visual identity, even if the result in Flash could be made very similar looking.In what way would it affect me as a developer having to implement one over the other solution?I cannot see that it would have any advantages when developing to move buttons to control the graph outside of the swf.Anyone who can make the graphing app can in no time add the buttons instead of making a handler to respond to JS calls from the HTML buttons.What have I missed?In what way does combining Flash and AJAX help the user in those examples?In what way does it help developers?

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I'm glad to have discovered that someone made an effort making a script similar to my backbutton and deeplinking solution for Flash.Maybe old news to many of you, but since I get some visitors here looking for such a solution I thought I mention it.

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Ok, I know there seems to be enough difficulties defining what Web 2.0 actually means.So of course attempting to define what web 3.0 will be is silly, or if you are enough of a visionary will make you stinking rich and renowned.I guess I will fall into the silly category, but I do like to speculate (although I would prefer to become stinking rich and renowned) :)I must say I would have completly failed perciving what web 2.0 would be about a few years ago.It took me ages to see what is so useful about XML and syndication, and I'm still neither a flickr or del.icio.us user. I recently started blogging and the only typical web 2.0 service I actually is using is audioscrobbler, or last.fm as they are called now.