On Saturday, February 4, 2012, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > Hi Omar, > >> You should check out ext.js if you haven't, they have most of the components Flex has and then some. > I looked at it some time ago and though it was ok however the more recent EJ4 does looks like a vast improvement. I'll look more into it. I still have some issue with lack of tools and language features in JS. I have been coding JS since IE3 days so have a fairly good idea of it's benefits and limitations.
If you haven't yet I recommend you try WebStorm or PhpStorm, the code completion and JS introspection is pretty impressive, as the support for Jasmine and qUnit tests. >> The point is that many applications will not use Flex because targetting AVM limits their ability to be on tablets >> and mobile devices as a web application. > > Well not entirely correct you can right now target Android FP (11.1) and you can target iOS and Android via AIR but your right there's no flash player in a browser on iOS. iOS and Android are more about apps and Flex (via AIR) does continue to work there so it may or may not be an issue depending on how you want to distribute your application. That's why I said in web browsers specifically, some apps don't want a native style app, for whatever reason, and Flex not targeting A browser technology outside of AvM is a problem. > >> Compiling to JavaScript would solve that while providing a more robust application framework with type safety to develop in. > I agree there. And we wont have any idea re performance until someone gives it a go. > > Thanks, > Justin Agreed, I'm eager to start some experiments but I'm doing some learning first. -omar
