Oh and then theres that small little umm requirement
time.
I agree, I remember back in the day i stupidly had this idea of using
XML and Flash 6 together to describe my UI... Libby then invited me to
this product called Royale and said check that out... it blew my mind
as to how damn powerful it was and dwarfed any concept i had floating
around in my head.
At the same time Claus released DENG and again i was blown away by XML
and FLASH together (sure his was more about XHTML etc).
Point is this, the products been ready for the past couple of years
yet the people who have tried it are either held back by time or loose
interest.
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:47:55 -0800, John Dowdell
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Benjamin Dobler wrote:
Why no open source Flex?
I mean the swf format is open. The tools are their. Merging components,
creating Actionscript components
It`s all doable and there is nothing magical about flex.
That's true. It's not a trivial undertaking, but it's certainly true.
One of the first things to consider is the XML language you'll use to
define the final SWF experience. Flex's MXML handles layout and
databinding of a particular component set. This isn't the only way to
describe a SWF experience in XML... SMIL has defined layout and media
sequencing in XML, SVG has described vector graphics in XML, and there
have been a few projects over the years which describe various types of
SWF experiences in XML. (One of the first discussions on this whole
subject was when XML was first introduced in the late 1990s, and people
tried to figure out useful ways to describe a Macromedia Director
experience in XML.)
Once you figure out your XML abstraction, then the next step would be to
construct a SWF by those instructions. This could be done in-SWF in some
cases (an HTML page holding a SWF which then requests an XML file to
construct slideshow sequences, for instance), or once in production at
author-time (those static SWFs that Flex can make), or fresh for each
request at serving time (as Flex usually does).
I think there's lots of room for various XML languages, which are then
constructed as SWFs at various times. Each combination would likely have
its own set of advantages, its own set of best-use scenarios.
jd
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