flash as backend
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- ilmarine0
back to cms-s. if you look at most of the new os-s coming out right now, the most amazing innovations are in the looks department. basically every cms developer should think of the product as if it were an os. os-s are developed to make people's lives who have to work in them for days on end easier. a website admin/author/publisher may have to work within the cms's enviroment 8 hours a day. i think that flash is the ideal answer (maybe in connection with xml as someone pointed out) to create an environment that makes peoples' lives easier.
in addition to being flexible it allows concepts and gui improvements that would be hard to implement with javascript or css. besides, using flash completely evades the browser and platform compatibility issue. and these two (compatibility and usability) are the two most important things looked for in a cms. well, it has to be suitable for the task at hand (content management), but that's what the name says already.
as for java... still a big no-no. too hard to create in the first place and too costly to maintain. i still think that java is ugly and a dying language.