I'm excited about Flash MX and CF MX. I'm the Flash evangelist over at CF Dev and what I love the most about Flash is the possibilty of building forms with advanced state management and validation capabilities in a fraction of the time it takes to do the same thing with other technologies.
These forms require less code, are cross-browser compatible and easily scalable (clustered servers). They're object-oriented forms and the probl em has been that it is very difficult to do the first time. I'm guessing that Flash MX/CF MX will make this development much easier a nd therefore strengthen CF. And Flash and Neo..... Don't get me started! Greg Alton CFDev ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Dowdell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 5:40 PM Subject: RE: a little about the future > At 8:22 AM 3/4/2, Angel Stewart wrote: > > I don't like how they seem to have CF MX as errr 'supporting' > > Flash MX.. *folds arms and pouts* > > The whole thing was about Flash MX basically. > > *taps foot and pouts some more* > > Other folks had the info, if that helps. As Mike noted, text-based > functionality is certainly stronger than before, and the smarter front end > doesn't detract from that. > > I've been thinking of this aspect: ColdFusion was one of the first to break > away from stateless viewing sessions, by remembering things about the > visitor on the server end of things. Now it has a stateless partner rig ht > in the client... there's no need to toss the page after each visitor > interaction. > > These "rich web applications" with client-side processing are a logical > extension of the previous type of web applications. > > ColdFusion didn't make regular static web servers obsolete... both > expanded. A smart client won't make ColdFusions text-based generation > obsolete either... just adds another tool to your toolbox. > > > At 9:22 AM 3/4/2, Bryan Stevenson wrote: > > I've been dangling CF/Flash teasers in fornt of some local companies > > and they are flipping out about the potential. So I guess we as > > developers could throw our opinions at this latest announcement > > until our fingers are red and raw or we could be happy that the > > folks that pay us to build applications like the idea ;-) > > It's great to hear you've been getting nibbles on this, even at this ea rly > stage. I hope it goes well for you, and please nudge us along with > course-corrections as you see them, thanks: > http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform/ > > (The list here is fine for nudging too, for sure, but the wishform gets > requests directly logged for whichever development team you wish.) > > jd > > > > > > John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US > Search technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ > Offlist email risks capture by the spam filters. I may not see your > email if it's not on the list. Private one-on-one email options are > available via Priority Access: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists