Re: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-21 Thread Andreas Rønning
Guns don't kill people, people kill people, right? The hammer/carpenter brush/painter car/driver analog is endlessly debatable. I belong to a school of thought that believes putting a gun in the hand of a person makes him a far more viable killer than one without the gun. I think people have a

Re: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-19 Thread Andreas Rønning
Paul Steven wrote: Been using Flash now for many years to create online games, CDROMs and websites. I have always used the Flash program itself to create all my content because that was the only option I had available to me (with the exception of creating swfs in illustrator and the adobe flash

Re: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-19 Thread Andreas Rønning
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/brz_overview/ Better description than my jaded cynical self could provide. Keep your bs filter in the on position though. - Andreas Andreas Rønning wrote: Paul Steven wrote: Been using Flash now for many years to create online games,

RE: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Steven
Thank you Andreas for a frank response I feel alot better not knowing anything about Flex now:) Cheers Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andreas Rønning Sent: 19 October 2005 14:25 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-19 Thread David Mendels
Macromedia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Rønning Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 6:25 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] What is Flex? http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo

RE: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Steven
Mendels Sent: 19 October 2005 14:47 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] What is Flex? Hi, Andreas's info is dated...there is a lot of new news this week that changes much of what he said. Flex is a product line from Macromedia for building applications that run in the Flash

RE: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-19 Thread David Mendels
Hi, With regards the website I am about to develop, it will require user registration, progress monitoring and be comprised primarily of interactive learning activities. Does this sound like something Flex would be better suited for than just Flash itself? A) Make sure you keep in

Re: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-19 Thread Andreas Rønning
and the most basic differentiation between the products.) Regards, David Macromedia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Rønning Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 6:25 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] What

Re: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-19 Thread Adam Pasztory
Macromedia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Rønning Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 6:25 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] What is Flex? http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo

Re: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-19 Thread Cortlandt Winters
Andreas said This is just my relatively uninformed opinion however, i'd love to hear counterargumentation when it comes to the usability issue. Hi Andreas, I enjoyed your rant's but in the end they are reactionary nonsense. Usability doesn't depend on the technology. It depends on design.

Re: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-19 Thread Andreas Rønning
Cortlandt Winters wrote: Andreas said This is just my relatively uninformed opinion however, i'd love to hear counterargumentation when it comes to the usability issue. Hi Andreas, I enjoyed your rant's but in the end they are reactionary nonsense. Usability doesn't depend on the

Re: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-19 Thread Cortlandt Winters
Hi Andreas, Yes I follow your gist. But what you are arguing for is simple design and ering on the side of caution, nothing more, nothing that I would dissagree with either, but having little relation to the Ajax vs Flash choice. Sure Flash gives you plenty of rope to hang yourself with, but it

Re: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-19 Thread hank williams
The most important metric in measuring a user interface is money. Page based systems where every action loads a new page costs money. This is because every new page you require someone to load you loose approximately 50% of your audience. For most people, lots of page loads are painful. Now,