I a starting to play with Flex and also want to try Silverlight/Expression Blend from Microsoft; but I think this kind of presentation layer technologies are the way to go.
We have been stretching the capabilities of HTML by embedding behavior through scripting, but HTML was conceived for handling big amounts of content in a light, standardized format for the www. When you get the option to leverage on vectorial-based UI technology for all your layout, widgets, user in-line notifications and transitions; working with images for building up your app's character starts feeling a bit primitive. Again, I currently use ajax/css/html but I dream of the day when I can focus totally on the design and less on addressing the viability of an idea based on the Ajax library support, the cost of maintaining that piece of javascript and its extensibility, or fixing other people bugs (like browsers compatibility). Exploring new ways to create products away from "document-canvas" paradigm. I think these tools (and hopefully soon a Open Source IDE for this) can help us get there. Definitely the technology in which the design is being implemented has a big deal on impact on the design process itself. IMHO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30127 ________________________________________________________________ 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
