Hi Paul, >If however you want to design highly usable business applications deployed to thin clients (to use an ancient phrase) you need GUI tools to be productive.
Not agree. Modern JS frameworks are supporting "hot reload" (Royale not yet) which means the browser view is refreshing automatically after any code change/compilation... and depending on the framework and project, this just takes seconds or milliseconds. So, you see the results in near realtime instead of waiting for the compiler and restarting your app all the time. >If you are designing traditional web applications where everything is stacked and the user scrolls forever then yes you can do that without a GUI IDE. I think these days it is is more a design/UX decison if you go with a "one page scroll" approach. Nobody stops you from implementing complex UIs using HTML/CSS/JS. JS frameworks (including Royale) are "component driven" like Flex. So, breaking down complex apps into reusable components has become the standard in web development. >My initial test application (very simplistic) for Royale can be found here... As Carlos mentioned, I guess you should be able to implement this by using Royale/Jewel or any other JS framework out there. But with Flex, we were used to had anything (or most of the things) we need within the SDK. With JS development (including Royale) you might want to use 3rd party (UI) libaries in order to increase quality and productivity. Just my 2 cents, Olaf -- Sent from: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/
