Could ajax do this?

[AnthonyDamasco]

Hey,

I have a question about this website:
http://www.ted.com/index.php (http://www.ted.com/index.php/)

When you click on different themes from the side menu, you will see an animation.

I think this animated is a flash application based on XML/PHP/MySQL
My client is convinced that flash is the devil.

How easily would this be achieved with ajax? and is there a point to converting it?

[Horus_Kol]

you can do the popup/resize and hover stuff in ajax and javascript... MooTools (http://mootools.net/) has a bunch of effects libraries for doing this kind of thing.