I designed a really complex enterprise application in Flex for Bank of
America. It's got some wonderful positives, but you're asking about
drawbacks, so here it goes:
1. Not a lot of Flex developers. Finding resources is a challenge
(although it's community has grown since my project)
2. It's accessible, but it takes work. There's a library of
accessible components out there somewhere.
3. Depending on it's use, it's footprint MAY be heavier than other
solutions.
4. It's not free.
5. Some designers don't know how to build in a page-less paradigm.
6. Getting data is fast, I wouldn't worry about that. You can lazy
load the data if needed.
I'm completely impressed with what's going on in the jQuery space, so
if you haven't checked that out, you should.
On Jan 23, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Oleh Kovalchuke wrote:
We are thinking about building data processing application entirely
in Flex.
The benefits: there are component libraries (
http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer.html)
,
which can be modified via CSS, the initial development time is short,
charting capabilities.
Anyone has built data processing app in Flex before? What are the
possible
drawbacks?
- UI and code maintenance, modification.
- Accessibility (compatibility with screen readers) - this is not
for the
app, but relevant for side project.
- Scallability - presentation, manipulation of large amount of data
in a
data grid.
- Licensing issues?
There was a brief discussion of Flash two years ago:
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=21887<http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=21887&search=flash+awesome
>
Any updates?
Thanks,
Oleh Kovalchuke
Interaction Design is design of time
http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm
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