After some pretty strong examples, I now see some very good applications for flash within web sites. Adbobe had a keynote presentation showing off Flash, Flex and their Flex – Ajax bridge which was quite impressive. They showed several cases using a small flash widgets of sorts that would interact using ajax to update html content on the page. The result was a nice interactive widget that would have been otherwise much harder to develop using html and javascript alone.

An example in a different session showed a totally different use, a 1×1 px transparant flash object was used on a page to maintain a connection between that page and the server. The result was that a change on the server could then call a javascript function on the page to update content. The example showed a simple contact manager with basic CRUD functionality that would update its content on all copies of that page whenever a change was made. They went on to talk about other applications such as in page chat and other advanced forms of collaboration right within a web page.

Tomorrow there is a session about Dojo.storage which uses flash solely for access to local storage, it was stated that up to 100k could be stored… which definitely could prove quite useful.