[UPHPU] Thoughts on Flex

[Fred Larsen]

On Jan 30, 2008, at 9:59 PM, Trevyn Meyer wrote:

> I met with a guy who posted a job on the php job mailing list, and  
> he was raving about it?  Ive watched the demos, and it looks like a  
> back end development tool for a flash front end.  Could be cool, but  
> do you think promoting things like CF and FLEX are helping websites  
> be cross platform/cross browser?  Do you think flex offers more than  
> what a good JS library could do?

I have recently been doing a bit of flex work and have really enjoyed  
it.   Adobe's flex builder is a really nice tool.  I am normally don't  
care for eclipse based products that much but, Adobe has done a really  
great job with the flex builder.  I am also, really enjoying working  
with AS3.

On one project I just JSON encoded objects  to exchange data between  
flex and php and it worked great.

The projects that I have done are for a small groups of users under  
controlled circumstances.  Personally I would still use Javascript on  
something that is has a large audience.   That is mostly because I  
have much more experience using Javascript with large audiences.   
However, I would love to hear from anyone that has deployed flex to a  
large audience.   I am just not ready to take that leap, yet.

Fred