paul h wrote: > Hi tino, > > I use Flex (don't like the Flash IDE - especially that stinking > Timeline ) with Rails all the time - no problems. Being on Windows, I > use InstantRails, and Aptana Studio as an editor, although I do as > much as I can now via the command line. I looked into Aptana due to it > being built on Eclipse the same as Flex, no other reason. I have not > had any problems so until I do, being Pragmatic :) I'll stay as I am > for now.
I recommend against Aptana. It was promising, but never really fulfilled that promise. Anyway, Rails is better without an IDE. Just use a good text editor (I like KomodoEdit). [...] > As far as not using Flash because of iPhones etc, I guess it depends > on your target market and the application itself. Are your users going > to want to access your services from a mobile handest? I have a mobile > running Android (not the latest version) and it struggles to display e- > mails from this group, and not all web pages are viewable > (particularly from this group) - regardless of Flash content or not - > so I wouldn't make a decision on the technology used on your full > blown web site app based on the mobile market. Mobile Apps, not web > sites, are the way forward in my, very humble, view. > I believe you are 98% wrong here. With the profusion of mobile operating systems and browsers, it is now more important than ever to develop in standards-compliant HTML that will work effortlessly on all client devices. Taking my own use case (which may or may not be typical), I do a heck of a lot of Web browsing on my iPhone. The browser is excellent and capable of dealing with just about any standards-compliant HTML and JS. If your site requires me to download a special-purpose app, whereas your competitor's works flawlessly in the Web browser, which one do you think I'll use (hint:it won't be yours)? > Instead of trying to develop one web site/application front end for > all devices, why not make your main site - the one which will do all > the attracting of customers - exactly as is required for that > particular purpose. If you then need to provide access to services for > the mobile market, create the relevant App for the relevant handset > OS. Hell no. There are at least 4 advanced phone operating systems one has to develop for if one goes this route. Standards-compliant HTML works everywhere. > With Rails, you can create the one Application on the server, then > specific front end apps for each market you are targeting - each of > which could connect with Rails. You certainly can. But in most cases, it's probably extra work to no real advantage. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
