Using Flex to render HTML/CSS as been thought to be a ton of work, but could definitely happen with community support. I have an old prototype on my blog that I've been refactoring in my spare time.
-- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui On 1/4/12 2:03 PM, "Lionel Andre Pierre" <lio...@pierresolutions.com> wrote: > Please forgive if this is out of turn or place, it seems people are making > suggestions about the work they would like to see done on Flex and I would > like to contribute. > > I've used Flex for about 5 years and always found text formatting to be > difficult and limited. > > > > I would like to see as an alternative to TLF (Text Layout Framework). > > Flex could benefit from some development geared toward correctly displaying > HTML/CSS formatted text. > > > The reasons behind this are: > > 1. Flex applications could more easily tap into content that is being > shared through traditional web pages. > > 2. HTML/CSS knowledge could be leveraged against Flex instead of the > TLF approach which cannot be used anywhere else (AFAIK) > > 3. The MX Text Components were heading that way (with the HTMLText > properties) but the implementation was never up to par, I hope something can > be done there. > > Lionel > > >
