I think that Flex has abhuge number of benefits for data driven applications. Project organization via packages and extending components, the strengths of AS over javascript and control over objects rendered by the runtime. Also the ability to create complex animations in Flash professional and import tgem in and access via AS. Then there are all of the features you get out of AIR with native extensions and stage3d and etc.
The main things I see as hurdles are the rendering issues between the display list and the hardware accelerated content, issues with native text inputs and slight lag on large lists. Also the webview can't be interacted with so you have to just watch the url. There is just general fear about Adobe supporting AIR going forward but I think that will be ok. If there was a way to make a starling lile list for mobile and some softening of the rougness around the native controls I don't know any other comparible cross platform. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Chiverton <t...@extravision.com> To: dev@flex.apache.org Sent: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:08 PM Subject: Re: Mozilla takes on Flash On 31/10/2013 16:58, Kessler CTR Mark J wrote: > I'm guessing outside of this controlled environment, having the general > public access to an application would be the uphill battle you have laid out. It depends on the audience though. We're deploying to people who, generally, have multi-megabit ADSL-class connections as a minimum. Even the first time hit of ~3meg isn't much off a slow down, and we use local RSL for the SDK classes, so at least when we do a release it's only a ~800k download until we update it again. Tom
