With all due respects; we're glad you like Flex and some of it's
simplicity; but as this conversation has nothing to do with development
of Flex SDK; can you please take it elsewhere?
On 6/15/2012 9:50 AM, James Ong wrote:
Hundreds libraries? Just JQuery and any solid JS framework will do. I
been using Flex, Scala (Play! or Lift framework) and
PHP/Javascript/CSS for years. You will need to understand Flex is not
one-size-fit-all technology and slowly you should get used to it.
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:40 PM, sathyamoorthi
<sathyamoorthi...@gmail.com <mailto:sathyamoorthi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
I don't know where to share my thoughts. As a hard-core
flex developer i just dump my thoughts here.
Yesterday, i started to build a web app using HTML. As a
first step i tried to build a layout. I don't have anything
special. below is my layout.
After a long struggle i designed and positioned my header
correctly. Then i came to my main page which contains 3
containers. If it is flex, i will code like this,
<mx:HGroup id="grp" width="100%" height="100%">
<mx:Group id="grp1" width="300px" height="100%"></mx:Group>
<mx:Group id="grp2" width="100%" height="100%"></mx:Group>
<mx:Group id="grp3" width="300px" height="100%"></mx:Group>
<mx:HGroup>
Above code will take less than a minute and should work
perfectly in all browsers as i think. But you know guys i am
trying above layout for a day in HTML. still i didn't get it correct.
Usually in flex,
grp2.width = grp.width - grp1.width - grp3.width.
But in HTML,
grp2.width = grp.width. How good it is? i don't know.
And another thing, i tried to layout 3 div's inside another div
horizontally. That is also really painful.
i tried float, display and lot more options. Nothing helps me to
get it right in all browsers. I know it is easy with Table. but i
should do it with divs.
Hundreds of libraries there in JavaScript. But really
nothing contains that number of good components and layout
features like Flex. I really hate programming in a day.
_* NOTE: Please don't reply with any HTML codes.*_ I will
continue and succeed on Monday anyway. It is just a story, how a
flex developer struggles to migrate to HTML because
of HTML5 storm.
Happy Weekend!!!!!
-Sathyamoorthi.
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