On Apr 30, 8:37 pm, RogerV <[email protected]> wrote: > Flex SDK has revolutionized development of enterprise, corporate, and > vertical solution Internet apps over the last 3 years. It that realm > it kicks HTML and JavaScript into the last century. HTML5 still holds > no candle to it. Even as we're now moving the Flex 4 and Sparc, HTML5 > can't even come close to parity with what we were doing with just Flex > 2.
Agreed: Flex 2/3/4 have rich controls, fast & lean transfer protocol, pervasive runtime. I've worked on a product myself where we've used charts and grids and more to "rich up" the app. And it worked very well, mostly (the tree control had some issues, apparently, and Hibernate and the otherwise good remoting component BlazeDS just didn't work together). I think it's a testimony to the strength of the Flex ecosystem that Silverlight hasn't made much of a dent, yet (it may in the future, as it may be positioned to replace .NET client apps). However, like most we desktop apps, you designed for 1024x768, a mouse and a keyboard. So you have scrollbars and tables with columns and buttons and the great chart libraries that show data on mouse-over for data points, and all of that just doesn't work on a small touch device (no "mouse-over", buttons have to be big, the iPhone data table doesn't even have the concept of a column or a column heading). In short: Most Flex apps won't work well on small devices. But I could be wrong, and we'll see in June where Flash Player 10.1 apparently launches on the new BFF Google's Android 2.2, at least partially making good on the suggested launch in H1/2010; everybody else (Blackberry, Symbian, Palm) will follow later in the year. This will push Apple harder to work on getting more video over to the iPhone/iPad and to improve the SDK. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
