ahhh, flash is a different kettle of fish alltogether, it will run it at exactly the speed you ask it too... if the computer is fast enough to handle it.
this is as most animations and stuff in flash is rendered in realtime, so the performance between differnent computers can vary much more than gifs in browsers.
like all things you just have to balance it all out, if you want to be really sly though you make the animation first, and just put the frames in flash, but then you have to play with your compression...
hmmm, one day you think they will make something that is surefire?
this is as most animations and stuff in flash is rendered in realtime, so the performance between differnent computers can vary much more than gifs in browsers.
like all things you just have to balance it all out, if you want to be really sly though you make the animation first, and just put the frames in flash, but then you have to play with your compression...
hmmm, one day you think they will make something that is surefire?
So you get to choose between live rendered and stored frames? Ohnoes... decisions 
Well, animation rendering engines aren't exactly a competitive field so I'd guess there's not much development happening. For example, the MNG specs have been out for 6 years and got nowhere. The GIF format should be fine (for small scale work) if the developers bothered to follow the standard. Flash is probably the way forward as it's come from one source that produces it's own (reasonably consistent) implementations.
Well, animation rendering engines aren't exactly a competitive field so I'd guess there's not much development happening. For example, the MNG specs have been out for 6 years and got nowhere. The GIF format should be fine (for small scale work) if the developers bothered to follow the standard. Flash is probably the way forward as it's come from one source that produces it's own (reasonably consistent) implementations.