On 6/30/13 7:58 PM, "Organet Systems" <organet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks Jude for the input! > >> There are a couple of good things about the FlexJS project that may not >>be >> apparent to us as Flex users. That is, if FlexJS becomes popular >> (especially to HTML devs) then it brings Flex into a good light. When >>HTML >> devs see how they can create great apps with the Flex syntax they're >> learning and using they'll see they can cross compile to FP and AIR for >> free. Then, their client says we now want to run that app on mobile. >>Then >> being able to compile to Flash and AIR becomes a valuable asset to them. > >Now I can see the benefits of being able to output Flex in HTML format, >for better accessibility and attract more developers to use Flex. Like >what Adobe Flash Professional CC is able to do now to output it in HTML5 >and Dart. Personally, I felt that HTML output should be an OPTION and >shouldn't be the CORE for Flex dev (Like Flash Pro). Putting Flex dev >focus on HTML is a great risk, it might end up losing Flex users who love >FP and AIR (who don't believe HTML and Javascript can do what Flex is >able to do and go away and look for something else like Feather UI, >MadCompanents and etc.), just for my personal opinion, I felt that Flex >dev for HTML should be an option and definitely it's a great option to go >for, but should not be the core. What I hope to accomplish with FlexJS is to make a great second-generation SDK for building FP and AIR apps that can then be compiled to JS/CSS. If you can get your users to use FP and AIR then you save a lot of browser-specific testing, but lots of people don't seem to control over that decision. Yes, there will be some API surface trade-offs required to make your code portable to JS/CSS. FlexJS won't take advantage of weak references and dictionaries unless it is part of emulating a browser built-in. But if you look at the prototypes so far, you'll see that FlexJS SWFs can be as small as 20K, don't need RSLs, preloader frames that can't use Flex widgets, a base class that is 13K lines long, etc. -Alex
