For sure, Flex has some kick ass neat stuff and I can see where it does make sense (if I look hard enough), but I think that Apollo as an RIA makes more sense than Flex delivered via the browser.
IMO :-) "This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hastings To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Apr 07 21:47:24 2007 Subject: Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: > "And finally, Flex is a much better solution for applications than AJAX, > which is a collection of band-aids applied to the sucking wound that is HTML > interface development." > > In your opinion :-) ditto for yours that flex isn't so hot. we've done a lot of 'ajax' before we knew it was ajax (way back when we had to manage all the versions & cross-browser stuff ourselves), we find flex to be a better all round solution for most of the stuff we build (the exception of course being locales w/an RTL writing system). and using it w/cf is drop dead simple. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:274786 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
