On 5/19/15, 11:22 AM, "OmPrakash Muppirala" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Although, the one thing as you know was Mike disagreed with FlexJS's >>view >> in ActionScript because he said HTML/CSS designers should just do what >>they >> do and design in HTML/CSS. >> > >I disagree fundamentally with this idea. For one, HTML/CSS is a terrible >terrible paradigm. No designer is happy with the way things work today. >I >would rather provide a better way of doing the visuals via MXML+FXG (like >we do in Flex's spark skins) and cross compile them over to JS + SVG + >Canvas as needed. > >Even the HTML/JS world is waking up to this idea. This presentation [1] >does a great job of explaining why SVG is better than CSS for interfaces >building. FlexJS is in a great position to provide this out of the box to >developers. > >Thanks, >Om > >[1] http://slides.com/sarasoueidan/building-better-interfaces-with-svg#/ I forgot to mention in my other reply that one potential limitation of the HTML-centric approach is in dealing with more and more dynamic applications UIs. At some point the HTML could be just as hard to figure out given that not all tags are in play at all times. But good paradigm or bad paradigm, there are a lot of folks who are experts at it and sometimes you have to cater to them. I don’t think FlexJS will output HTML files other than the main wrapper, but if that’s what folks want, who am I to say no? But until that happens, in FlexJS there will be skinning and CSS as ways to manipulate the UI. -Alex
