No your are definately not wrong. Flex is meant as a rapid development framework for complex Rich Internet Applications. Flash has full ECMA support and has the ability in combination with for example, Flash Communication Server, for building complex web applications ...
all in theory .. In practice, with the current flashplayer, flash applications are way too heavy. That is because the flash player in its current form isn't capable of giving the required performance for larger interfaces. On the Mac the player is even worse. On my dual opteron workstation for example scrolling the Flex Treeview example isn't going smoothly. Once the new flash player comes out I bet you will see more possibilities with RIA's in a Flash form. The previewed performance was dramatically, but we are not there yet. Javascript isn't the quickest scripting language either, it just isn't, but it is capable in its current capacity of doing all what you need today, and it has enough power to build truly large interfaces. A BIG disadvantage of using Ajax, is the lack of experienced developers. It requires several years of experience on multiple areas. It requires extensive knowledge of CSS, XML (XHTML), Markup and JavaScript, in combination with presentation layer architecture experience. There are very few people who can do this. But once you get a team of this type of geeks together you get things like Gmail. Things like checking logins with xmlHttp, most people can do, that is not difficult at all. It becomes truly powerfull, if you can build entire interfaces with it acting responsive, user friendly and cached (yes... js,css files are cached). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:199184 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
