We have flex deployed at thousands of clients. Never had any security or browser concerns. We are still developing and vesting into multiple modules, including mobile apps to complement our systems. Our clients love it and so do we. We are using 4.13 and no browser issues. Honestly we had the same worries two years ago... Shopped around and all seems like a terrible hack. So we decided to stick to flex.
The way I see it... Desktop Apps are picking up. Windows 8, chrome android ios etc... leaving browsers for what they do best. Surf the Web. I think both browsers and flash will start fading out simultaneously. When this happens you've got Adobe Air Recently we created a desktop adobe air version, our clients are loving it. We are back to the era where ppl just love to download updates! Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 7, 2014, at 1:16 AM, DavidM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello fellow Flex users, I have a few questions about the state of Flex and > Flash browser plugins. > > Background: > > We have a flex application in production since 2011 - running perfectly > fine, without any problems. > It is a desktop trading application, and is never used on mobile or tablet > platforms. > It requires a DataGrid with both fixed headers and columns. > It is used by Fortune 100 customers, a significant number of whom seem to > still be using IE8. > > So, over the past 3 years we've looked at migrating off Flex, to various > platforms, such as the ZK framework, Webix, jQuery, etc. > > However, these frameworks all either look terrible in comparison to Flex, > and/or have significant cross-browser problems (especially with IE 8). > > HTML5 frameworks are clearly out of the question for us unless we want to > spend forever messing around with browser shims, etc. > > So, I'm thinking we should just continue with Flex, and add new > functionality to the existing applications. > > My questions are these: > > 1) Are folks seeing any situations where corporations are disabling Flash > plugins (e.g. out of concern for security issues) ? > > 2) We have read that certain browsers (e.g. IE 10) have prevented users from > upgrading Flash. Is this correct? If so, what is the minimal recommended > Flash Player version (our last release targeted 11.3) ? > > 3) Adobe Flash Builder, using the current SDK version 4.13, doesn't seem to > allow targeting players below 14.0. What would be the recommended player > version such that our application would work in the event that users cannot > upgrade their players in IE 10 (or other browsers). > > 4) What would be the recommended SDK version in relation to question 3 > above? > > 5) Are we insane to be thinking about building a new application in Flex > today? > > Thanks for taking a look at this. > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/State-of-Flex-tp8616.html > Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
