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Good read , written by Mark Garrett:
digital-web.com/articles/m...ex_builder/
Overall he is positive about Flex iteself, but something interesting that he points out is that MM has a poor record with server based software :
".... Macromedia is a great tools company but has a poor track record when it comes to servers. The list of server products and server-related IDEs that have been abandoned by Macromedia is alarmingly long: Spectra, Aria, Kawa, LikeMinds, Drumbeat, ColdFusion Studio, and SiteSpring. It’s not even clear that Macromedia is aggressively promoting Flash Communication Server any more, and Flash Remoting appears to have escaped near-death with the release of Flash MX 2004."
I had not really thought about that before, and he has a point. Now that Lazslo is open source, its likelihood of disappearing anytime soon is greatly diminished.
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Re: flex article over at www.digital-web.com
Tue, October 19, 2004 - 9:59 AMRight I can definitely see room for Laszlo. My problem with Flash has always been the authoring tool. I just can't stand the editor. -
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Re: flex article over at www.digital-web.com
Tue, October 19, 2004 - 1:23 PMTimeline based tools for making UIs is just lame, and probably the main reason I have not used Flash that much. Flex's MXML language is MUCH better! It also does not freak out the Java programmers that I have worked with in the past. In their mind, if you can't run diff on it its not a real dev tool ;)
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Re: flex article over at www.digital-web.com
Tue, October 19, 2004 - 1:48 PMAlso, MM's Flex authoring tool Flex Builder is pretty cool. It is very similar to Dreamweaver but with hooks for doin MXML. Its not Interdev, but then again Dreamweaver's market was not programmers, but web folks.
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