I like your reasoning. Can you maybe create a little MXML and AS3 project (pseudo code, obviously) that shows what you think a 'HTML friendly MXML/AS' file would look like?
Thanks, EdB On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Olaf Krueger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I guess you all are very busy with other stuff so sorry for introducing > another topic here. > > I would like to share my experience with Royale and that said I have to > admit that for me it is still rough to work with Royale and so I wonder > why. > > This is one reason that comes to my mind: > The Royale MXML is much different from the Flex MXML, so I can't reuse Flex > MXML knowledge and it needs several cycles until a UI is the way I want it. > On the other hand, the Royale MXML is also different from pure HTML. So I > can't reuse HTML knowledge. > Often it is easier for me to build stuff in pure CSS3/HTML than using > Royale > MXML. > One reason for this is that there are tons of HTML/CSS3 snippets out there > that solve nearly any problem. > But we can't use this stuff directly with Royale. > > So I wonder how we can improve the Royale developer experience and how we > can benefit from all these HTML/CSS3 snippets and docs out there? > One idea that comes to my mind is that something like a "Smart HTML" > component set could help out of this dilemma. > > A component set that contains/maps all HTML elements including all existing > attributes but that is also enriched by additional smart properties (e.g. > 'dataProvider' for an HTML table). Moreover, it should be easy to apply > standard CSS3 to any element in the same way as it works with pure HTML > markup. > > Please enlight me if something like this is already implemented or leave > some comments if you think this makes sense... or not. ;-) > > BTW: Of course, I am just talking about the HTML/JS target. > > Again, thanks for your time! > > Olaf > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://apache-royale-development.20373.n8.nabble.com/ > -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
