Flash or JavaScript

Question

JavaScript

I need a small project for my needs, so I'm thinking about choosing a technology where the entry threshold is lower, where I can implement it faster.
The meaning is approximately this - you need an online card editor with the ability to add a text field, select a font, its size, drag it around the screen, load a background, and load a logo. It is supposed to be saved so that the user can download his project at any time, as well as print this finished document remotely.
Right now I'm thinking about whether flash or jquery + a bunch of everything you might need. I found several similar projects on the net, implemented both in flash and in javascript.

I know jQuery superficially, I had to do standard things on it, but I don’t know flash at all. But it seems to me that on flash it will be possible to implement more beautiful and more functional.
I don't take html5 into account, because cross-browser compatibility is needed, and IE does not support svg, although it would be nice, looking at what svg-edit can do .

Advise in which direction to dig?

Answer 1

I would recommend using javascript. It can also be done beautifully and functionally. There are cross-browser libraries for canvas. In general, javascript vs flash is an eternal dispute, there is no right answer, the choice is yours.

Answer 2

Although I am a big fan of HTML5, but in IE without Canvas or SVG on JavaScript alone, I think you will not do what you need. jQuery has nothing to do with it at all, it's just sugar, and it doesn't squeeze any radically new features out of the browser. Although, what is meant by an editor, if we are talking about a picture background with scaling and an inscription on top, then this is simple in JS. What does it mean to print remotely? Describe in more detail.

Answer 3

With such manners and MS Word, it will not be long to surpass. I want to write this myself, I thought about Flash and HTML for a long time. At one time, I even made a website where you could “take” notes with editing HTML text, inserting pictures, uploading files to the note, but stumbled on the fact that screenshots could not be made. But... Well, don't embed PrintScreen in HTML. I would also add syntax coloring (there are such CSS "plugins" for HTML). At the moment I'm looking towards Java (Maybe FX?), But I have to write from scratch. But the editor can turn out to be cross-platform. Sorry, friend, that's a little chaotic - I've been thinking about this topic for a very long time. I went through several dozen editors. There is no normal editor to keep logs as an administrator and programmer. Here is a good technology for storing everything in one place - .mht! Just what you need. Pictures inside, graphics inside, css-inside i.e. you can even pick up syntax highlighting (which I wrote about), you can write "collapsing blocks" for code, I'm sure that vector things will fit there, but there is no editor for it! But both IE and FF (with a plugin for .mht) have a view of this file. If it were possible to write such an editor (after all, even your own JS program can be “embedded” there). Now, if you could embed your own editor in mht (both IE and [FF with the unmht plugin] allow you to save a new state), then something close might work out. If it were possible to write such an editor (after all, even your own JS program can be “embedded” there). Now, if you could embed your own editor in mht (both IE and [FF with the unmht plugin] allow you to save a new state), then something close might work out. If it were possible to write such an editor (after all, even your own JS program can be “embedded” there). Now, if you could embed your own editor in mht (both IE and [FF with the unmht plugin] allow you to save a new state), then something close might work out.

Answer 4

Okay, thanks everyone. Since the choice, one might say, is equivalent, I'd better focus on javascript.

Answer 5

Do it on Flex

Answer 6

I don't take html5 into account, because need crossbrowser compatibility, and IE does not support svg

First, SVG is not HTML5 in any way. Secondly, native support for SVG is already in IE9, and in previous versions SVG works great through a plugin.

Answer 7

You can do this on flash, but if you don’t know it at all, then the process may be delayed.
With cross-platform, the flash is all right, only there will be a bolt on any apple trees :(