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cobra25 · 2004-05-07 #14

Originally posted by x3ro
The point of this is that the whole system is seamless; and for enterprise developers, they have the resources available from their application servers. Sure, for knocking up a website, Flex will be overkill. But that's not what it's for. This is not 'another Flash'. If you read the docs you'll see that this uses the Flash player. And as for the move to pure scripting ... it makes total sense. Trying to write a UI for a web application in an authoring environment that remains, at heart, an animation package, is asking for trouble. This had to happen at some point: the $12K pricetag is pretty steep, but for the moment, they have something close to a monopoly on rich web clients

exactly

	cobra25	2004-05-07 #14
	Originally posted by x3ro The point of this is that the whole system is seamless; and for enterprise developers, they have the resources available from their application servers. Sure, for knocking up a website, Flex will be overkill. But that's not what it's for. This is not 'another Flash'. If you read the docs you'll see that this uses the Flash player. And as for the move to pure scripting ... it makes total sense. Trying to write a UI for a web application in an authoring environment that remains, at heart, an animation package, is asking for trouble. This had to happen at some point: the $12K pricetag is pretty steep, but for the moment, they have something close to a monopoly on rich web clients exactly