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SWX: still a bad idea

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Some more comments on the SWX controversy, after Aral’s rebuttal of my previous post. First off, just to be absolutely clear, I am not bashing Aral, or anybody working on SWX itself. Aral and I have have collaborated on amfphp, and are coauthors (among several other very talented people) on a new open-source Flash book, […]

SWX: a bad idea

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My fellow flasher Aral Balkan sent me an email today about his new project, SWX. Basically SWX is a way of sending and receiving data from and to PHP that is very similar in principle to, say, amfphp. Instead of using the native NetConnection object, however, SWX relies on loadMovie, and its ability to send […]