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Sacha writes:
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| Oh dear - time for me to display my absysmal ignorance. I don't know what
| Flash is and have only the most tenuous grasp of Java. Can you explain,
| please? I can get into the whole of the site, BTW.

I fail to see why anyone should be required to know about those
disgusting minutiae, but they do :-( Anyway:

Flash (or ShockWave Flash) is an application that bolts into your
browser to display cartoons. It is considerably less heavyweight
than a video add-on, but more so than a static graphic one (such as
one for JPEG, as with files like fruitflies.jpg).

Java is a general-purpose, fully-functional scripting language and
has nothing to do with JavaScript, but can be used in the same way.
It is considerably less repulsive and more secure.

JavaScript is a hacked-up scripting language that bolts into your
browser to allow the Web server you are visiting to do horrible
things to your computer (i.e. run programs on it). You had better
pray that either it wasn't written by a malicious hacker or that
your local JavaScript interpreter is tolerably secure.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.