| Computer languages are just as important in | | | | extensive features, 3D capabilities, unfailing |
| today’s world as spoken languages. From its time | | | | appearance in supported browsers, built-in User |
| of inception it has evolved to what it is today, few | | | | Interface and other features, supporting vector |
| codes on which the whole gamut of the web world is | | | | artworks, lots of font options and off course many |
| rotating. Two such popular applications are the jQuery | | | | free and commercial tools are also available here. |
| and the Adobe Flash.jQuery is a new type of fast and | | | | Whereas in jQuery, the file size is relatively much |
| concise JavaScript library which emphasises the | | | | smaller, there are numerous free professional quality |
| interaction between JavaScripts and HTML, whereas | | | | programs that one can use, one can add various |
| Flash is a multimedia platform which can control vector | | | | types of interactivity to the webpage elements and its |
| and raster graphics and even support bidirectional | | | | tags and its compatibility is much higher compared with |
| streaming of audio and video. The usability of these | | | | that of Flash, which includes iPhone, cell phones, PS3 |
| two applications helped to create popular animation | | | | and PSP. |
| and interactivity to a plain and simple webpage, that | | | | It is thus very important to know when to use either of |
| was not possible before. There are various other | | | | these two applications versus each other. While |
| interesting things that one can do with these two | | | | creating a Slide Show, Form Validation, Drop-down |
| applications, which is slowly taking over the world. | | | | Menus, Tabbed Panels, Pop-ups & Tool-tips, and |
| Since its introduction in the year 1996, Adobe Flash | | | | Expandable & Collapsible Elements it is ideal to use |
| became quite a popular method of adding animation | | | | jQuery. Again when working with Video or Audio |
| and different types of interactivity to the web pages. | | | | Player, complex Animations, 3Ds and other forms of |
| With the help of its scripting language called the | | | | complex Multimedia, using Adobe Flash is the best. |
| ActionScript, Flash took animation to a different level | | | | With more and more different types of plug-ins |
| altogether. Then in the year 2006, jQuery came into | | | | becoming available, its best to know up front what you |
| being and became the most popular JavaScript to be | | | | are trying to achieve and then evaluating both the |
| used by the web developers. Designed to make | | | | technologies before using one. |
| navigation round a document easier and faster, jQuery | | | | With the internet on the roll, developers are coming out |
| allows the user to very efficiently find and manipulate | | | | with new and new technologies everyday which |
| HTML elements with minimum lines of codes. Even | | | | provides more and more different alternatives and |
| though it isn’t known to be the best solution for 3-D | | | | options for the users to get acquainted with and use |
| and vector based graphics, the versatility of jQuery is | | | | them to its maximum capabilities. |
| truly quite astounding making it a much better | | | | Contadgreen specialises in creating websites which |
| alternative to Flash. | | | | includes these two web based applications. |
| In case of Flash, some of the plus points include its | | | | |