I'm with Jason. And in particular, at the moment, I'm loving the CSS skinning - even if it's still not particularly well implemented in terms of selectors etc., the skinnability of Flex components (and how easy it is to add CSS support to your own components) is excellent.
We've been experimenting lately with adding all sorts of things to CSS files - whole themes, including sounds as well as appearance. :-) Flash for animations, unusual user interfaces, tight compact minimalist code. Flex for applications with structured layouts, form elements, lots of data and server calls. (Don't know if anyone's seen the new proposals for Flex and Coldfusion demoed at Max... essentially in a single MXML file you now write both the client-side code _and_ the server-side code, and Flex and Coldfusion between them sort out which code is published to where during the compile phase... brilliant idea. I've never used Coldfusion, but I have to say that this has tempted me...) Ian On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Merrill, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And it's not just the advantages Flex has with comboboxes and dropdown menus > and the like. There are a ton of other advantages, like for example, > databinding, easy to code layout, including liquid layout, easy component > creation, easy skinning, TONS of components Flash doesn't have,which are not > necessarily just for "applications", they could be for games and other > interactions, like color pickers, charts, tree, and things like webservice > components for data connections (no longer available with Flash). > Flexbuilder also has bandwidth profiling and better coding tools that Flash > doesn't. > > For fancy animation stuff, Flash is the clear choice - but anymore, I tend to > look at both equally for projects. For large complex stuff, I would go with > Flex, - for less complex or animation driven, I would go with Flash. > However, Flex DOES have animation and effects built into it too, and you can > animate with Actionscript in Flex, so it's really more a question of what > kind of project you are working on. > > > Jason Merrill > Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media ยท GCIB & Staff > Support L&LD > > Interested in Flash Platform technologies? Join the Bank of America Flash > Platform Developer Community > Interested in innovative ideas in Learning? Check out the Innovative > Learning Blog and subscribe. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dr.ache > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:22 PM > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash > > unbelievable bad quality this site. would have expected something better > from bmw. > > Joel Stransky schrieb: >> I'm struggling with this a bit myself. For web based applications that >> include lots of UI like checkboxes, tabs, dropdowns etc. Flex is the clear >> choice. That's what it was built for.For small flash elements like banners, >> animations and video, Flash is probably the best option. >> But what seems hard to answer is weather or not mxml is a good option for >> full (FWA quality) flash sites. >> >> Look at bmwusfactory.com. All Flex, but did it need to be? >> >> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Lehr, Ross (N-SGIS) <[EMAIL >> PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >> >>> I guess this is somewhat off topic, but I'm new to the whole Flex thing. >>> What are some of the reasons one would build something in Flex instead >>> of Flash? Is it just a preference thing, or are there real technical >>> reasons one should build a particular app in Flex? >>> >>> Thanks >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Flashcoders mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
