If you all don't mind - I would love to take a step back from the "implement/not" discussion and point out a thread I hear being repeated in this discussion which is management starting with the tech selection/solution first which is a bad idea all around. I know at least in my b-school strategy class - they taught that problem-space definition always comes first - and this seems to be where stakeholders/management are falling down. Wouldn't it be nice if stakeholders got together with their teams and started with problem definition and goals first - worked those out completely - and then explored possible solutions/technology selection, etc after strategy?
If the conversation starts with "We need to build an RIA in Foo" the project has already been draped with a great big nasty rotting albatross around it's neck. My humble 2 cents and a tequila shot. <trim> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Ryan Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey All, great discussion. > > I'm an evangelist at Adobe so I'm not unbiased but I wanted to chime in > on a couple of things. Especially with Flex we've really tried to make > SWF in general more web-like. So some of the issues below, like back > button and custom URLs are fully possible in Flex. It's a bit more work > but I don't think it's a lot of extra work over an Ajax application. > > I saw another question about accessibility and all of the Flex > components are accessible out of the box. Currently they work with JAWS > on Windows and we're working on Mac support as well. So instead of > having to create your own accessible components as you would with Flash, > you can use the Flex Framework components and get some of those tasks > for "free". > > I'd love to answer any other questions. I'm about to dive into the rest > of the thread about Thermo so I may have more responses. > > =Ryan Stewart > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > RIA Evangelist > Adobe Systems ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
