I think that flex is a developer friendly environment and flash is not. By that I mean, for one thing, that flex is built around the eclipse environment, which is the gold standard for developers. Macromedia wanted to grow the community. That meant designing a tool that would appeal to rank and file developers. That meant making a new more programmer friendly (like eclipse or MS Visual Studio) environment.
I dont think you can make the flash IDE look enough like a programmer friendly environment to get your typical java or MS developer to like it. I code in Java and Flash and for me, Flex is heaven. I dont think they were 80% or 90% there as a programmer friendly development tool. I think if you become familiar with the kinds of tools java and c# developers use, you wouldnt say that. They are miles apart. That said, I do think that some of the things in flex can/should migrate to the flash IDE. I think flex builder and mxml can be done in a designer friendly way. Just look at Dreamweaver. But, while Macromedia is a big company, they could not develop two totally different metaphors at the same time. Flex took a lot of work and a long time to get right. Once they are done (which is still 6 or so months away) I suspect some of the things will end up in the Flash IDE. But it is not reasonable to expect they could do all this at once. What they have done so far is amazing work. Regards Hank On 10/28/05, Judah Frangipane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > right on. that's what i'm talking about. flash was about 80%-90% there > for developers and then they forked the sucker. are they focus on > developers in the next version of flash authoring since 8 was a designer > oriented release? i like flex and where it can be used but i'd like to > see the features in flex syncronized in/with flash authoring. that would > be killer. > > ryanm wrote: > > > One might ask, however, why, instead of creating a whole new > > development platform, they didn't just release better components that > > are easier to skin, better CSS support, better html support, and just > > make Flash a whole lot more capable and eay to develop for. Sure, > > skinning is easy in Flex, but why not make skinning components easy in > > Flash, rather than making "skinning is easier in Flex" a marketing > > campaign for Flex? > > > > ryanm > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders mailing list > > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
