> AS is very well documented and very powerful - in the MX
> release, pretty much *everything* is scriptable.
Sean,
I agree with the powerful aspect, although it has it quirks.
However, I cannot agree with you in respect to documentation. Flash's
documentation has been painful for the most part and sometimes
incorrect. The documentation is also overly simplified and third party
resources and sites are necessary to be able to understand even
intermediate level aspects of actionscript.
But to answer the original thread, yes, we do Flash MX
applications exclusively (using CF as the backend). We just finished a
project to build an enterprise level surveying tool and the project
would not have been feasible if we had simply used ColdFusion/HTML or if
we had used Flash 5. It also wouldn't have been nearly as
cost-effective to use something like Visual Basic. While the survey
itself was outputted as HTML, there were two interfaces, an admin tool
and a data visualization tool, that were done exclusively with Flash MX.
The data visualization tool would have been a bear to work with
had we used an HTML interface. It also wouldn't have let us port it out
as an executable and run it disconnected on a laptop. The
administration tool wouldn't have been nearly as useable if we had used
HTML unless we did some fancy DHTML. Although I'm a fan of javascript
and DHTML as a hobby, it is far from a cost-effective solution and it
will ALWAYS have cross-browser problems.
I don't actually advocate using Flash MX for all things. For
example, I generally won't try to display a large document using it --
HTML works so much better. I also wouldn't create a public facing web
site that uses Flash MX. I find that intranet applications are a great
time to use it. With the FlashCom server, it's also a good use for
anything involving collaboration.
It's really a matter of using the right tool for the right job.
Ben Johnson
Information Architect
www.architekture.com
[p] 720.934.2179
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