I am working on a module I can use at sites like Philly Future, or here, that displays a random quote from an XML document.

Admittedly I am not an expert at either Flash or Ajax, but I figure this basic module can be built quickly in both for comparison. I’m just about finished with the Flash version and will use it here at my home page and will release its source code. I’ll do the same with Ajax shortly.

After getting either of these online, it should be fun to add behavior to them. After all, using Flash for simple text based output is overkill. One thing to note is how this module can be deployed in any web environment without touching server side code. No PHP. No JSP. No Python. No Perl. Gotta love that.

We’ll see where it goes. Tinkering is fun 🙂