> > And does anyone know what percentage of developers use FlashDevelop? I, for > one, have never even seen their home page, let alone used or downloaded it. > Nor do I believe that any polls on any such boards that you didn't mention > really matter either. All of these boards will have only a percentage of > Flex and AS3 users, a percentage that is impossible for anyone to > determine. I imagine this is why the Apache saying exists: "If it didn't > happen in the mailing list, it didn't happen.". > > -omar >
I'm sorry, but there isn't a better way - you would need to select a group of users and poll them. If you have a better idea of how to poll all users - I'm all ears. If you never heard of a single oldest open-source editor for AS3, I am rather surprised about why are you putting this forward as an advantage, or something you would want to show off... and how this makes the poll less credible. Again, I didn't say that either sources or other parts of the SDK are useless, what I say is that people don't use them quite often. Some - never use them. This is a common sense, that if a feature is not mandatory - make it explicitly optional... It doesn't matter how good uses you can find for the things in the SDK. The goal _is not_ to provide users with as much stuff as you can. The purpose is to give them what they really need and be flexible about giving per request. Best. Oleg
