+1 for Design View
2012/2/22 Dimitri k. <k...@noos.fr>: > After the discussion on the ML about the Design View, I thought it would be > a good idea to ask Deepa at the Flex Paris meeting if Adobe could consider > to open-source it after the removal from next version of Flash Builder. > Frédéric Thomas, also on the ML, was quicker than me and ask Deepa about > that. > She said that Adobe hasn't thought about it because they didn't believe we > were interested, but she was thinking it could be a good idea. > In fact, the Design View is a Flex app, so the community can easily > contribute to it, and legal scrubbing should not be such a drag. > > She concluded that the best thing to make it happen would be to show > interrest for the open-sourcing of DV on this list. > > I know that lots of people don't care about the Design View (I rarely use it > myself), but here are 4 reasons I think it could be a good move for Apache > Flex: > > - DV is a great tool to understand the MXML paradigm, particularly for > people coming for a Flash Pro background (timeline+stage), and its removal > would increase the barrier of entry to Flex. > > - I heard several times about devs for which the DV is central to their Flex > workflow. It's often the case for heavy form-based application, where > standard Flex components are use exclusively and the Design View help > avoiding "design re-compilation". > In fact, I was told by an Adobe enterprise evangelist that he sold Flex to > some big companies mainly because of the Design View and the ease they see > in it to train their employees. > > - DV can be really helpful when designing Mobile apps, because you can test > quickly your design with different resolutions and orientations > > - If we have access to the Design View code, maybe we could improve it in a > way that even current Design View haters would use it ;) > > Dimitri K.
