It is for several different applications. One of them queries and sorts data in hundreds of thousands of rows and a few dozens of columns.
The constraint is usual: limited and disconnected development resources, hence we have to rely on canned components in Flex Builder 3. We initially decided to go with Flex because of it's relatively light weight editable data grid. The immediate concerns I have about building entire application in Flex are: - presentation of inline error correction messages; - writing and editing contextual help messages; - scrolling for dynamic, expandable content (this could be a non-issue); - presentation consistency across different development teams (this includes layout consistency (padding, margins, grids -- Flex CSS should help here). - propagation of updates to UI components across application. - will entire application go bust, once new version of Flash player is released and automatically installed on client's machine (a very plausible scenario)? Can this mishap be prevented? As for data-intensive UIs, I think Flex should be a great platform for presenting information in dynamic charts -- look at Google Analytics, for example. Thanks, Oleh Kovalchuke Interaction Design is design of time http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Alan Wexelblat <[email protected]>wrote: > Oleh > I'm involved as the interaction designer on a Flex-based financial > trading application at the moment. I'm curious what sort of "data > processing" application you have in mind. How much data would you be > sending to the client and at what rates? > > Or is your concern solely about the ability of Flex to present > data-intensive UIs? > > Best, > --Alan > > ________________________________________________________________ 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
