Flash works for me as long as you're confident it can be safe. We already eat up enough of your server by spamming your banners everywhere. Also, people on neo should have graphics cards that can handle customization (for the most part...I have a new computer with a standard graphcis card, and it lags a little, but some of that is extreme), so they should be able to handle a flash sales tracker which would have minimal animation, right?

Flash sounds nice, if its safe :D The banner you posted works perfectly for me, but Neo's customization (like when viewing pet lookups) or KeyQuest lags SO BAD on most computers I use for neo (or all perhaps... :K) so I hope its not like that :P Actually, the problems with neo and flash are worst in FF, I've noticed. The petlookups arent so laggy in IE. Weird :o [hr][size=11]Training Supplies, Meds, Neggs & Luck!!! www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=_jaspeh_&misc 4mil Independent Ads http://www.neopets.com/~SicalliaRomeo [/size]

I'll jump in on the PHP/Jscript side of things, with one issue that'll probably come up because of it. If it's PHP/Javascript, then end users can make GM add ons for it to help it look and behave slightly differently if they would like. The problem with that is if there are changes to the NM interface, those scripts will break and may need to be updated / no longer be an option. At the same time, if interface changes are kept on the low end, or only as major updates, and what is updated is the way the interface is presented (graphics and such), it may be much less of an issue. On the other hand, the possibility of the above may be a leading reason to push you to Flash, avoiding the whole issue :) Also, you've probably addressed these elsewhere, just point me to the search bar if you have! 1) Will current DBs be importable? 2) Need Beta Testers? 3) Will we be able to download local copies of the DBs for local manipulation and/or backup (this goes hand in hand with the Importable bit too)? 4) Do you have a 'desired features' list, as well as maybe what current features you are planning on keeping or dropping? That's probably a big enough list right now. I love using Portal, and use a USB key to easily sync my DB between different computers :) It'd be neat to make it FTP compatible and run it off a USB key from anywhere (or just run it off the USB key to begin with, does it use a relative or absolute path to the DBs?)

I will pipe up and say that sometimes Flash is bad in FF (3.6.3) for me, especially in Faerieland :) One other bad thing with Flash and FF is that FF does a bad job of zooming many flash applets. There may be something simple to make it work right (lots of NP games, and others, zoom fine, but many newer ones don't, what changed? I dunno, I'm no flash expert). Also, what if I get an IPhone? :)

The banner didn't load for me firefox.. could be an addon, noscript or adblock issue though. Does this mean you'll stop developing the portal app? Because I really like using that...

I like that the flash will leave less load on servers, I wouldn't want more lag on sites when not necessary. I like that flash banner, it loads pretty quickly (Unlike Faerieland or the Customizing area), it is eye appealing, and gets whats needed across, which is generally how I envision The Sales Tracker II. I don't actually see the need for it to be so shiny and new graphicy. It's nice to look at, but all in all, All these sliding transitions and actually Popping up instead of appearing windows bug me to no end when I'm trying to get stuff done in a rush. Probably why I still like old programs and such where you click a button and GO there instead of watching the screen get pushed aside. Just my 2 cents :) --- Step outside, take a breath of fresh air, then look down to see if you have a new text message.