As quoted by Darron (third party quote):
> "with something like this out on the market, buying Flex
> or Lazslo would be such a lame decision."
What!? With what (very) few details are available about Xamlon, I could
maybe see it being a direct competitor to the traditional Flash IDE, but
a competitor to Flex/Lazlo!?
I suppose if your definition of Flex is "a way to create SWF files
through programming" then maybe a comparison can be made. But if that's
your narrow perception of Flex I think you're missing the point of Flex.
To me, the REAL purpose of Flex is to enable fast creation of robust,
usable Web applications. This is something that just could not be
accomplished efficiently before Flex. And from the details I've seen, it
doesn't appear that Xamlon will offer any accomodations in regard to Web
applications. In Xamlon, the programmer will still be responsible for
all that ugly low-level, tedious, error-prone work that was required
with Flash...managing loading/unloading/instantiation/destruction of
assets, managing positioning and sizing of GUI, designing event
frameworks, trying to support browser history nav, trying to support
accessibility, etc.
I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but let's just be careful not to crown
a successor to Flex prematurely.
Kris
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Kristopher Schultz
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Resource Interactive
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