There should be some improvements to text performance real soon (4.1) which you can try out in the nightly builds, but it still won’t beat HTML. The question is really if there are other advantages of Flex/Flash that will outweigh the trade-off. Sometimes you can do things that will make Flash appear faster even though raw performance may be lacking.
On 5/25/10 3:56 PM, "Baz" <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks Oleg. You confirmed my suspicions. You are right that Flex/Flash performs very well for exactly the type of site you referenced (pixlr.com <http://pixlr.com> ). I can affirm though, that it does not perform great with text heavy activities - especially if we are talking about RichEditableText with the <span> and <b>, etc - even excluding discussion of load times and such, just runtime performance is flickery, choppy, etc. I guess I have to master JQuery now, sad... I love Flex. -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe System, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
