All Over Software Jobs: Re: [flexcoders] You are the product

Monday, December 19, 2011

If you've written a lot of code in ActionScript, writing code in JavaScript can feel like a regression. Right now, there are trade-offs in the Flash stack and the HTML stack. Adobe is not saying that you should stop writing applications in Flash/Flex and move to HTML/JS/CSS today. My summary is that, based on the recent track record of the HTML/JS/CSS stack, there are a lot of folks doing great things on that stack, and we are investing in becoming the leading tool provider for that stack. That takes time and we are starting now. Also note that Google is trying to replace the JS portion of that stack with a structured programming language. I would not bet against that eventually happening, but it is unclear that it will be DART. The HTML/JS/CSS stack has a lot of people working on it, and they are working together, and Adobe is joining that party.

Today and tomorrow and for some number of years, Flash and Flex remain the best solution for a significant number of applications, and Adobe is betting that by moving Flex to Apache, Flex will enjoy the benefits of a lot of people working on it, and working together. The Flash Player will be getting faster and will have new features, and while most of those will be motivated by the gaming initiative, some of those improvements will benefit non-games as well.

If you want to be one of the many people working together on Flex, watch for announcements we hope to make if we get accepted by Apache.

-Alex

On 12/18/11 9:45 AM, "Glenn Williams" <glenn@tinylion.co.uk> wrote:

The samples are ok, but it's the actual langue I dislike.

I just doesn't feel very complete to me.

I really don't want to take a step back when I was in fact hoping to be getting a new version of action script that moved the main language even further forward.

The whole situation just feels like a regression to me.

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rick Winscot
Sent: 18 December 2011 01:29
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] You are the product



The charts? The dashboard? The app as a whole? Yes… I'd recommend looking into the ExtJS samples at Sencha.

http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/

From: Dave Glasser <dglasser@pobox.com>
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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:22:39 -0800 (PST)
To: "flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto%0d%0a%20:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> " <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] You are the product



Ca! n you do something comparable to this with HTML5/JS/CSS?

http://examples2.idashboards.com/idashboards/?guestuser=wputil1&dashID=260

If so, do you have any links to examples?

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From: Guy Morton <guy@alchemy.com.au <mailto:guy%40alchemy.com.au> >

Using HTML/JS/CSS you CAN do apps that look every bit as nice as Flash apps, and they run everywhere.