On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 02:14 PM, Adrocknaphobia Jones wrote: > - More expensive to develop > - Requires more developers
I built my first RIAs when CFMX was in beta. I put together about five relatively simple RIAs for a series of Flash and ColdFusion integration tutorials. I will admit that my first couple took me longer to build than if I had built the exact same functionality just in HTML and ColdFusion. However, once I learned what I was doing, I was able to build Flash applications every bit as quickly as I could build them in pure ColdFusion. I'm not much of a designer, so I turned them over to a professional to clean up a little which worked out nicely because the designer I used was very familiar and comfortable with Flash. I'm not sure why you say RIAs are more expensive to develop, but I assume you mean because of time. My experience has been that at the very worst, once you get over the initial overhead of learning what you are doing and adjusting your workflow, you should be spending about the same amount of time on your RIAs as you were on your CFMX apps. To be honest, it is not an insignificant learning curve, but I actually had quite a bit of fun getting familiar with the new technology, so it didn't feel like a chore to me. That said, HTML applications are going to be around for some time to come, so if that is what you are most comfortable with, by all means, stick with it. But in the meantime, Macromedia is going to present developers with some pretty interesting options. Christian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
