There is one thing where HTML is superior to Flash - and especially with the new combobox component this becomes obvious: HTML dropdown boxes can cover the rest of the content while they are open - flash boxes can't.

This problem nagged me a bit, because for my localConnection experiment I just wanted to have a single combo box in a tiny flash file. The annoying thing is that I have to make the flash file big enough so it can display the list in full length when it is open, which is 4 times the height of the closed version. So most of the time you have the closed box and a big empty area underneath. This is not ideal. So I'm currently fiddling around with DHTML, Javascript and the Stage object to have a Flash file that can resize itself inside the page.

As you can (or can't) see this seems to work at least in my Internet Explorer. The problem is that now the localConnection fails sometimes and the flash file does not refresh. Still i think this is an interesting area to explore further.