The simple Flex app without Closure optimizations is 5mb in size, the optimized version 2.5 mb. Wow! How much better off would OpenLaszlo be with the Closure optimization...
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Raju Bitter <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's a video recording of the presentation: > https://my.adobeconnect.com/_a295153/p7ysfeovw33/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Raju Bitter > <[email protected]> wrote: >> The Spoon project team has posted some information in their blog on >> the Flex Summit demos of FalconJS. Here are some interesting facts: >> http://www.spoon.as/2011/flex-summit-live-updates/ >> >> + FalconJS will be donated as open source to Apache >> >> + FalconJS AS3 compilation: >> AS code -> falcon front end / falcon js code gen -> google closure >> compiler -> faster JS Code >> Standards used: HTML, JS, SVG >> >> + “Falcon JS” refers to two experimental utilities: >> – AS-> JS >> – MXML -> HTML/CSS/JS >> >> + "Seeing example apps running. They look really good." >> >> That actually sounds promising. The DHTML code should be much more >> optimized with Google Closure support, assuming that FalconJS supports >> the advanced compilation mode. >> >> There will be some changes regarding tooling >> – Flash Builder >> — will release support for apache flex >> — removing unpopular and expensive to maintain features: Design View, >> DCD, and Catalyst workflows >> – flash catalyst discontinued (with catalyst cs5.5 support for flex 4.5) >> – monocle continues as a priority >> >> It sounds like the latest components are optimized for FalconJS >> already, that means Adobe has done most of the work to have complex >> apps running in JavaScript.
