Let me rephrase, I mean Firefox Add-on. On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:42 AM, ganaraj p r <ganara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If browser plugins were a future we would be worrying quite a bit about > releasing Flex 4.7 or Flex 5. The problem is, the most popular plugin in > the world seems to have a hazy future, which is probably the reason for all > the discussion about moving away from Flash. > > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:09 AM, jude <flexcapaci...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The ease of making HTML pages was partly what hooked me so long ago. I > > could type something in a text editor and it would show up rendered in > the > > browser. > > > > What about a browser plug in that would handle .mxml files? Then you'd > just > > drag and drop an MXML file to the browser and it would render? > > > > Judah > > > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Martin Heidegger <m...@leichtgewicht.at > > >wrote: > > > > > The differences to languages like Python is that AS3 requires a > compiler, > > > and unlike - for example - haXe the compiler for AS3 is not written in > > AS3. > > > > > > One option is to implement that nice functionality would be a compiler > in > > > AS3. There is rudimentary ActionScript 3 evaluator called "Eval" > > available > > > [1]. > > > The other option would be to "call" the Compiler using a Java > > executable. > > > [2] That will work "perfectly" but requires the java plugin to be > > installed. > > > The third option would be to compile it on a server which well ... > would > > > require a server. Wonderfl is nice but highly proprietary. And we could > > not > > > use > > > those examples offline. > > > > > > A completely different approach would be to implement a "IDE" tutorial. > > To > > > be used with all AS3 ide's out there. You download the IDE and there > you > > > have access to documentation from Apache. This way all the IDE's could > > > provide the same Flex documentation that "interacts" with their editor. > > > > > > Just thoughts. > > > > > > yours > > > Martin. > > > > > > [1] http://eval.hurlant.com/ > > > [2] http://www.victordramba.com/?p=31 > > > > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Ganaraj P R >
