We are staying with Flex as well but keeping an eye on what is happening. I work for a very large enterprise company and it takes a while for our IT department to test software before deployment. They have almost completed Windows 7 and have a tentative deployment start of 2012. In late 2011 IE7 was ratified and became the company standard for web browsing. Up until then we had to stay with IE6!
As far as we are concerned HTML5/JS is not ready for prime time. Many enterprise customers are in the same boat and do not deliver the bleeding edge to their users. Once there is a viable ecosystem available for HTML5/JS (Including mature IDE's of the same value as Flash Builder with Flex) we will seriously look at them. I really don't see that happening for at least 5 years. On a side note, I like the look of ZKoss. I don't know if there are cross browser issues with it seeing as we use older versions of browsers. One of the great features of Flex is we don't have to bother coding for compatibility between different browsers and versions. When IT deployed IE7, Flex applications worked just as they had before. Anyway, just my 2c from the enterprise perspective. --- In [email protected], <michael_regert@...> wrote: > > Staying with Flex. Not looking elsewhere. > > Michael > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Ron G > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives > > > > Yes, we have also abandoned Flex in favor of ZKoss. Since we are already a > Java shop, on the server side, it seemed logical to use a Java based > framework on the client-side. > > The thing I really like about ZK or ZKoss is that it has equivalent > components to Flex. In fact, it actually has more components than Flex. > > It implements an approach that I really like of separating the UI into > appearance and behavior - much like the Spark components of Flex. Well, not > exactly, but sort of. :) Here's what I mean. For each UI object, it has a > client side (widget) and server side (component). I won't go into further > detail, but it gives you a nice separation of concerns that you can avail > yourself of. This feature also greatly insulates the rendered pages from > x-browser compatibility issues. > > Check it out for yourself at their site (zkoss.org). > > Ron > > --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "Sal" > <sal.celli@<mailto:sal.celli@>> wrote: > > > > hi, > > as i can sadly see from the message history bottom grid, many programmers > > are leaving flex. > > So this thread is to ask you all, if you have already found a valid > > alternative to flex for RIA development. > > >
