Wow. Honestly this is fantastic Dave. I wasn't trying to be a pain in the ass - if you refer back to my post about stakeholders and wishing more would start at the problem-space definition and goals first - things would be alot better. With the things you set down - it means that a team can get through those, and then start exploring solutions in a more effective manner.
> The biggest advantages of using the Flash player as a runtime for your RIA > as opposed to using AJAX: > > 1) Write once, deploy cross platform > Okay. > > 2) You can turn your Flex application into a desktop application without > much code refactoring (using AIR). > OSX/Vista/Linux ? > > 3) With the evolution of browsers, you can be less concerned about how to > migrate your code to keep up with changes in the Document Object Model in > AJAX, as the Flash player is backwards compatible. > Your right - this is a pretty big issue that always costs development time when you have to support IE/FF/Safari on Linux/OSX/MS and you end up going to the lowest common denominator - but still developers have to hack to get the right outcome for all flavors - especially when they work for/with me. > > 4) The Flash player now has hardware acceleration... so you can build UI's > that look and feel the way YOU want the to, and not be limited by your > development technology > 5) 3-d integration (using papervision or another framework) > 6) Handles LOTS of data much, much, much better (data grids with tons of > rows, etc) > No argument here - for dynamic visualization of large datasets - I can see that this is far superior - actually - the types of visualization I am imagining are only possible in Flex/Flash or in WPF. Thanks for the extensive answer. ~ Will ________________________________________________________________ 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
