Oh and then theres that small little umm requirement.... time.
I agree, I remember back in the day i stupidly had this idea of using XML and Flash 6 together to describe my UI... Libby then invited me to this product called Royale and said check that out... it blew my mind as to how damn powerful it was and dwarfed any concept i had floating around in my head. At the same time Claus released DENG and again i was blown away by XML and FLASH together (sure his was more about XHTML etc). Point is this, the products been ready for the past couple of years yet the people who have tried it are either held back by time or loose interest. On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:47:55 -0800, John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Benjamin Dobler wrote: > > Why no open source Flex? > > I mean the swf format is open. The tools are their. Merging components, > > creating Actionscript components > > It`s all doable and there is nothing magical about flex. > > That's true. It's not a trivial undertaking, but it's certainly true. > > One of the first things to consider is the XML language you'll use to > define the final SWF experience. Flex's MXML handles layout and > databinding of a particular component set. This isn't the only way to > describe a SWF experience in XML... SMIL has defined layout and media > sequencing in XML, SVG has described vector graphics in XML, and there > have been a few projects over the years which describe various types of > SWF experiences in XML. (One of the first discussions on this whole > subject was when XML was first introduced in the late 1990s, and people > tried to figure out useful ways to describe a Macromedia Director > experience in XML.) > > Once you figure out your XML abstraction, then the next step would be to > construct a SWF by those instructions. This could be done in-SWF in some > cases (an HTML page holding a SWF which then requests an XML file to > construct slideshow sequences, for instance), or once in production at > author-time (those static SWFs that Flex can make), or fresh for each > request at serving time (as Flex usually does). > > I think there's lots of room for various XML languages, which are then > constructed as SWFs at various times. Each combination would likely have > its own set of advantages, its own set of best-use scenarios. > > jd > > -- > John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA > Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd > Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs > Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ > Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > -- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.mossyblog.com http://www.flexcoder.com (Coming Soon) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
