Well the other thing is they're assuming that one developer is doing it all?? Architecture, coding and GUI design/actionscript? If so then a text IDE / Studio type approach may generate a little interest but in the grand scheme I'd say the larger projects typically have multiple players no?
The upside is it adds momentum to the rich client paradigm... I'd say it's a good thing...even if I worked for MM. :-) Stace -----Original Message----- From: Ben Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 11:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash Rich App Approach = Macromedia? > "Laszlo Rising: The Inside Story Of A Stealth Vendor's Rich > App Plans" It's an interesting approach, but I wonder how well received it will be. There were a couple quirky & errant quotes too. One quirky one, for example, was that they are using a "text-heavy editor". Why!? I understand that Flash has a reputation for being the tool that makes pretty web sites move around, but that doesn't mean it's not well suited for application development. Using a text-heavy editor instead of Flash is like saying you should write all your rich apps in BASIC instead of Visual Basic. (Wasn't there something called Liberty BASIC way back that did that?) "You've got art assets on a stage and you attach scripts to them so you've got code inside graphics... and other approaches that a typical developer won't find comfortable." That comes back to the same idea in Visual Basic. Although I don't believe the code is necessarily "tied", it's the same idea. If I have a combo box on my application, I click on it and I see the code for it. "The development platform will be comfortable for both high-end Java developers, who can take advantage of the object-oriented nature of the platform that allows objects to inherit capabilities from lower-level classes" While Flash's implementation of OO is definitely not perfect, you can still use classes and objects, etc. " Another target audiences is the dynamic HTML and style sheet and Javascript-savvy Web developers that build sophisticated Web interfaces today" Who? All two of them? <g> "Javascript-savvy" web developers are a dying breed and for good reason -- it doesn't make sense to develop applications in Javascript. Don't get me wrong, I like Javascript and you can do cool stuff in it but it's too irritating learn it when there's so many inconsistencies between browsers. Honestly, I don't see this technology taking over the world. It will probably turn out like Curl. Actually, anybody know how Curl is doing now? I haven't heard that word in a long time. Ben Johnson Information Architect www.architekture.com [p] 720.934.2179 ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
