The Virtual Ubiquity blog (they are the company behind Buzzword, the Flex word processor that you’ve probably seen) has a great post on why they chose Flash over Ajax. It does a good job of explaining the Ajax approach to building a word processor, and some of the weaknesses to that approach.

Flash won’t be the answer in every case, but the Buzzword team chose it because it suited their needs best. Even though Flash has a bad reputation for rich text, they dug into the technologies, found that Flash could do everything they wanted, and they built their word processor. It’s also interesting to hear them talk about Flash Player 9 as the first real virtual machine. In a lot of ways, they’re right. With Flash, you have a lot of power running inside the browser. But it acts just like a virtual machine, with its own rich sandbox and rich functionality.

The Virtual Ubiquity blog has become one of my favorites. They’re doing a great job talking about the development process and it’s one of the best looks at the creation of a Rich Internet Application that I’ve seen.

[tags]Virtual Ubiquity, Ajax, Flash, Flex, Buzzword[/tags]

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1. Virtual Ubiquity is Hiring – Go. Apply. Now.
2. Google Finance – Beauty with Flash and AJAX
3. Presenting Rich Internet Applications (Ajax, WPF, Flash Platform, Apollo) at Ignite Seattle
4. I Promise, I Do Not Hate Ajax
5. Scrapblog and Increasingly Better Flex Apps