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I feel your pain.

One of the things you hate about flash is the fact that it's an opaque box of evil dancing mortgage people. You can't view source on the page and make any heads or tails out of it. It's ickky.

Well, while that's generally true, I'll tell you what someone told me not too long ago. It doesn't have to be. While I've talked with the flash maps folks about providing a bit more detail, using the Javascript Flash API is actually pretty simple. It's also a bit more efficient about things because it can take advantage of a bunch of flash internal functions to handle things like automatically dealing with XHTTPRequests.

So, for the price of a flash module on your page, you get smaller, slightly simpler web pages. No dancing mortgage people required.

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