Re: "game programming"

"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:i92558$cru$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Brian Cryer wrote:
"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Knut Krueger wrote:
Hi to all,
it not the right headline an not the right group, but maybe it describes
the question, and I do not know where to start asking :-(

What's the best way if I would like to show f.e a soccer field in the
background and moving players. There should be different movements,
depending on f.e a parameter of the url like ?movement=one ?movement=two
and so on.

The goal is to use the simplest and fastest (bandwidth) way.

Flash

Whilst Flash probably is the way to go, Silverlight might be an
alternative. Don't consider SVG, as that technology is dying a slow death.

Why Silverlight? Silverlight is exclusive to Windows, the Internet is *not* exclusive to Windows. Netfix's is catching flack for using Silverlight for their streaming, even though *nix desktops may be in the single digit percentile that still is a significant number of eyes that you will exclude from your website...

Silverlight is an alternative (rival) to Flash, just a long way behind. It is not exclusive to Windows, but like Flash requires a plug-in. Unlike Flash you can't assume that the visitor will have the plug-in. I think almost all browsers have the Flash plug-in, but heard recently that its only about 25% that have the silverlight plugin.

SVG is a technology for defining a static image, not programmable API for animation AFAIK

No. It can do both. I worked on a project which used used SVG for animation. Adobe were very keen on SVG hoping it would be a Flash killer, but it never worked out so Adobe bought Flash instead and stopped backing SVG.
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