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Adobe Flash came from nowhere to become the obvious choice for embedding video into websites, despite the presence of well-established alternatives including Real, Windows Media and Quicktime. Could it have a similar impact on client application development? Last month Adobe’s Ben Forsaith ran a Flex 2 workshop for the press, …

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  1. regadpellagru

    Have a look at La Banque Postale E-carte service

    Also to bring water to this article, see

    the very good application from La Banque Postale

    , the french bank derived from La Poste, the still

    post company (despite not working at all ;-):

    https://www.particuliers.labanquepostale.fr/index/e-carte_bleue.html

    Been using it for years, is extremely easy, uses SSL

    to connect to the bank and generate the one use only

    VISA number to pay online.

    Will then show a picture of the VISA card with all

    generated numbers on. Very neat.

    And of course runs OK on Windows and Linux :-))

  2. Tom Chiverton

    Flex is more than meets the eye

    "Creating applications that work offline is a challenge."

    That will be addressed in a matter of months when Adobe release 'apollo', which allows Flex and DHTML applications to run on the desktop, with on/off line notification, an upgrade framework and more.

    "proprietary Flex Data Services"

    Are now provided by several non-Adobe sources, such as Red5. May even be free.

    You also left out remoteing calls to ColdFusion applications, which again is free and supported by several of the non-Adobe CFML engines. Again, these may be free.

    Nice comment spam above, by the way.

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