This early work was dropped when we realized that what we should really be
building was a declarative HTML-like language for producing SWFs. MXML was
the result.
At what point was it decided that Flex Builder should be made?
On 6/1/07, dorkie dork from dorktown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
how did the name Flex come about? how did you guys decide what features to
put in AS3?
On 6/1/07, Gordon Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>
> > how did you guys decide to use mxml (xml)?
>
> Here's my perspective...
>
> About five years ago there was a general feeling that Flash was great
> for designers but not for developers. Another problem with Flash was that
> the author-time FLA files that it saves are binary rather than text, which
> means they don't work wel with other tools, can't be diffed in source code
> control, can't have changes from multiple developers merged in, etc.
>
> So a small team, which I was on, starting building a very simple
> authoring tool (which never shipped) which was kind of like Flash without
> the Timeline and which saved its author-time files in XML format. But we
> didn't consider this file format to be a language you'd write in.
>
> This early work was dropped when we realized that what we should really
> be building was a declarative HTML-like language for producing SWFs. MXML
> was the result.
>
> > how did you decide to use actionscript
>
> That was a no-brainer because it was the language that the Flash Player
> knew how to execute.
>
> - Gordon
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:flexcompone
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *dorkie dork from dorktown
> *Sent:* Friday, June 01, 2007 3:01 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [flexcomponents]What background are the Adobe Engineers?
>
> i would love to have sat in on the discussions when Flex was first
> conceived. how did you guys decide to use mxml (xml)? how did you decide to
> use actionscript or at what point did you say we need to rewrite this and
> then decided what features to add in?
>
> On 6/1/07, Gordon Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I think the team has quite a mix of language backgrounds. My
> > previous experience was mostly in C++ with ancient knowledge of Fortran,
> > Forth, Pascal, and C.
> >
> > - Gordon
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > *On Behalf Of *dorkie dork from dorktown
> > *Sent:* Friday, June 01, 2007 11:25 AM
> > *To:* [email protected]
> > *Subject:* [flexcomponents]What background are the Adobe Engineers?
> >
> > What are the background languages of the Adobe Flex programmers? I
> > read this article on Oliver Merks blog about how Java is similar to AS3 and
> > the team I work with is all Java developers.
> >
> > http://blog.olivermerk.ca/index.cfm/2007/6/1/Flex-for-Java-Developers
> >
> >
>
>
