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    <p>Simply put: Flex will be a much easier framework to work with to provide a good user experience.</p> <p>Flex is really great (actually the best) to process images and do video and sounds effects in the browser. Manipulating text and images layout just cannot be simpler with any other framework.</p> <p>When working with Flex, try to target Flash player v9 (not v10) since it's already installed on ~98% of PCs connected to the internet.</p> <p>On the other hand, js/dhtml might be harder to work with (depends on your experience) but will be able to provide a better user experience IMO. Users will be working with a web page after all which will feel more natural to them.</p> <p><strong>Performance:</strong> The flash player is the fastest VM you can target to run code on the browser as far as I know. It is way much faster than IE6 for example (no doubt about that, a huge gap). But with FF 3.5, and latest versions of IE and Safari, I think the gap is much smaller if there is any. Actually FF 3.5 uses the same technology to run js the Flash player used to run ActionScript. <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Tamarin</a></p> <p>That said, there are other aspects of performance than code execution speed. The flash player will require more memory (special on Mac and Linux). And depending on your application, might be less responsive overall. (this depends on rendering, animation, and how will you implement things).</p> <p>I really don't consider requiring a browser plugin is one of the cons of Flex since that plugin is there for almost all users, and users are very likely to be running it on another page before visiting your web app.</p> <p>The only pro for js/dhtml is that it will feel more natural to users and IMO will provide a better experience if done correctly.</p>
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