On Tuesday 11 July 2006 02:02, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > The thing is, there's a 2nd "loading" phase, no matter what the > preloader looks like.
I've never seen an AJAX framework that doesn't have one too. > > #2: I agree with Jeff. Yeah, it's a bit big, but broadband is *huge* and *cheap*. > > #3: Our desktops all totally locked to users but Flash Player is deployed > > with MS SMS. There are some solutions for software deployment. Same here. Normal home users get a in-page update without having to touch anything, and corporate users will generally be using it for intranets, where the company can choose to role out the new Player to them all. > > #4: If something is missing in a component you can always extend them and It's a lot easier to build up a decent library of your own components in Flex than to try and write the same things in DHTML, even with something like Spry. As to timelines, been doing Flex2 for about 3 months now, and not had too touch it. Whatever it is. As to the image zooming thing using a Flash component - so ? Flash is Flex is ActionScript. I'm fairly sure I've seen a method for taking a bitmap and scaling it real-time in Flex, but as I can't find the reference haven't posted it. -- Tom Chiverton **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:37/messageid:2976 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:37 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.37
