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Can I ask why you chose Flex over the Ajax approach? What features were only in Flex that you felt this was a better approach?
by mcargian 18y ago
Can I ask why you chose Flex over the Ajax approach? What features were only in Flex that you felt this was a better approach?
- swombat 18y agoSeveral reasons, but the key one was that to build the kind of user experience we were aiming for, Ajax would have been a major, major, major nightmare - and probably not even possible (especially 1.5 years ago, but still today). With Flex, we got a very different set of compromises that worked out much better for the users.
- flashgordon 18y agoactually i agree.. if you want a UI that is consistent and easy to build, flex has a few hands up over ajax... ive been using flex builder for linux for a while... and frankly after trying out the windows (fully functional) trial version, i felt the windows version did not justify the price... sure there are a couple of superficial things the windows version has (like the design view - which is "ok").. only gripe is the linux version is still in alpha so feel a bit jibbed and not to mention hesitant paying full price for it... the real issue for me is they are leveraging so much of the eclipse framework to build an IDE, they should have more of an obligation to give it away for free, unlike MS (with its VS products)
- fizx 18y agoSeparate experience, but we chose Flex because the typographic control, while quite broken, still beats HTML/JS. I wrote a WYSIWYG editor for brochures and other printed marketing materials.