Gliffy Does Flash Diagramming Online

The usefulness of Flash for applications in the browser takes a giant step forward with Gliffy, a tool that provides the kind of diagramming functionality one has to pay for with Microsoft Visio.

Gliffy already. The tool has been crafted in Flash, and the developers behind the project report in their blog they are very much aware of what users want. They have been able to do with Flash what many developers have gained attention for by working with Ajax, a combination of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML technology. In their latest Flex 2 environment arrived in June, and its construction also drove the updating that took place with Flash Player 9. Flex 2 and Flash have been designed to help developers build and deploy Flash-based applications more effectively. Gliffy looks like the kind of front-running application one could envision being predicted by Adobe's Flash developers. Which makes us wonder - did Microsoft see it coming too? Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.