In the Office Today: Flex 2
July 25th, 2006
Adobe made a presentation at work today, with Ben Forta, the companies’ “Senior Technological Evangelist” Making a presentation on Adobe Flash 9 and and Adobe Flex 2. A part of his demonstration was showing the Flex Store Demo, which he admitted was a little “Out there” when it got to the point of the shopping cart.
I would be commenting while looking at the Demo, but penguin.swf exists for a reason. *sigh*.
Since I was the only Web Developer in the room (company wide pitch), I was able to get his responce on a few of my objections (these aren’t verbatim, please don’t sue):
- Our group generally doesn’t like Flash since it doesn’t print.
- Flash 8 and later allow for printable layers to be specified.
- In the demo, you can’t do deep linking - for example, link directly to a specific phone.
- Recent versions do allow for URL handling. It can be used to set states.
- In the beginning section of the store demo, all the sorting and filtering could be done with JavaScript.
- He conceded, partially, with the defence that animations that occured during the phone display filtering were at the limits of what JavaScript would do.
- Personally, I wouldn’t add in that effect, but I digress… digress from what though? I wasn’t prepared to make an argument with the Evangelist from the company that made Dremaweaver.
The Flex 2 Platform - MXML and ActionScript 3 as opposed to an artist oriented client - do have some potential for Pixler, though. Really, when the alternative is a Java Applet, I think Flash would be an improvement.
-Sud.
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