I finished the talk. Very interesting stuff! I never realized you can use TypeScript on Mac. FlexJS has a lot of the advantages of his setup. I’d love to make it work… ;-)
He did not mention how extensive the text engine is. Supporting style spans and multi-line text is much more complex than handling single text spans. I wonder if he tackled that. On Nov 2, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Harbs <[email protected]> wrote: > I’d never seen that talk before. I just watched about a third of it, and it’s > really interesting. I’ll finish it later… > > Thanks! > Harbs > >> One approach uses EaselJS with TypeScript and they pretty much wrote the >> entire front end text engine from scratch. They use InDesign in the >> backend. There was a presentation by Ted Patrick at the 360Flex conference >> this year on this exact topic[2] And he says this engine would be open >> sourced soon [3] >> >
