Flash to the people

Compared to HTML, Flash has been a relatively closed environment until now. Why? You need the Adobe Flash editor to build and publish/compile Flash sites.

Origin
In 2003 / 2004 I was using flash to create the front ends for webshops. Each screen was literally drawn and built in Flash, using the drawing tools available.
The backlash was that:

1. Each change in size, color or style resulted in redrawing each main component or component part and .
   
2. Each Flash file had at least a weight of 200 KB's and took at least 10 seconds to download and start (we are speaking of "low bandwith" times where 50Kbit per second was "fast!"

Tired of this, I created a "pseudo-HTML parser" that weigthed only 34KB, loaded in seconds and is capable to build an entire site with sub-pages based on "pseudo-HTML"

Flex
Flex came, did the same thing and seemed to render the engine useless. Also my focus changed. However:

1. Flex is heavy weight
2. You need to compile the files before you can see the result
3. It uses it's own "markup language" language that differs from a more common one like HTML

Flash to the people
Flash to the People opens Flash up, using a Markup Language that is using HTML as a basis and does not need to be compiled at all.

Benefits?

1. Use XHTML to build solid gorgeous Flash sites
2. With XHTML an easy to learn and open standard to everyone to build complex Flash websites
3. No compiling required to produce results
   
4. A light weight core engine that starts almost instantly
   
5. An entire re-usable library of several Graphic User Interface concepts
6. Easy to implement and ready made connections to XML-data and Open Source Flash Media Servers like Red5
   
7. Many easy to implement Flash-specific benefits like: streaming video, object sharing, audio/video capturing and audio/video conferencing