With Coldfusion you can compile mxml on the server (and have it cached).
Think that's been in there since Flex 1.0.
Actually if I remember correctly, Flex 1.0 was only compilable on the server.
MXNA was one of those early CF/Flex apps. May in the meantime have changed/been
upgraded.
http://www.asfusion.com/mxna/
Coldfusion has something called Flash Forms:
http://www.asfusion.com/blog/entry/coldfusion-flash-forms-macromedia
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/flashforms.html
http://www.asfusion.com/apps/realestate/
Totally agree on the CSS part. There's nothing like it..
For those not familiar with Flex, it's component framework etc.. have a look at
these:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/samples/code_explorer/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/samples/style_explorer/
And make sure to check out the source code for those applications (right click on
them -> view source).
The new CF stuff sounds very interesting!!
regards,
Muzak
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flash Coders List" <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash
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
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