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The stack is not open source -- the player is a blob. One of my co-founders like flex and have programmed some admins in flex, in xml. Myself I don't care much
by sunkencity 17y ago
The stack is not open source -- the player is a blob.
One of my co-founders like flex and have programmed some admins in flex, in xml. Myself I don't care much for flash. I've dome some actionscript programming and presentation development but I only do it if I really have to. I much prefer to work with HTML/Javascript. My co-founder would like us to work with flex instead of rails which he dislikes. I have no love for programming in XML, so the middle ground is that we have coded up some small web frameworks in java with seaside-style html generation. It works fairly well.
- abyssknight 17y agoI'll agree, Flash Player is not OSS (though projects to emulate this do exist), and it can be a royal pain but... You can definitely use Rails with Flex. Flex is not a server side language or framework. It can interface with all of them really well through web services. Heck, I'm pretty sure Flex can even inject and call JavaScript functions on your pages. Rails can render things to XML amazingly well, and you can still build an HTML response as well while maintaining the functionality of the Flex application. Your co-founder is comparing apples to oranges, but whatever works for you all is great. Just don't let the tools limit you.
- sunkencity 17y agoI like flash/flex when it's used as part of a site, to display video, a game, or some presentation. There are too many benefits from using standard HTML as to not use it for the main plumbing of a site.
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