+1
On 2/22/12 9:38 AM, Eugene Diana wrote:
+1 on keeping DV alive
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From: Jason Batten [mailto:i...@jasonbatten.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 5:18 AM
To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Adobe might think of open-sourcing the Design View if there
is sufficient interest
Another +1, it's good for quick wireframes and getting started
On 22/02/2012 6:14 PM, Bruce Lane wrote:
Right, Design View is very important to learn the Flex components
behaviours.
+1
Bruce Lane
On 22 February 2012 11:11, Avinash Narayanan<avinasha...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I completely agree. I personally loved the design view alot
especially when I first started out since I had no idea what flex was
all about. Its also brilliant for understanding the various
containers, components etc from a learning perspective. definitely a +1
from my side.
Thanks
Avinash Y
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Dimitri k.<k...@noos.fr> wrote:
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.
