Doug's comments are well said... discussing the pain-points in a competing technology is a healthy exercise.
On Friday, June 15, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Doug McCune wrote: > > > > Your experiences / pains on building HTML apps has no place here. Nor > > does a debate on the merits of HTML/JavaScript Frameworks. > > > > > > I've said it before and I'll repeat it again. This is so very not true. As > a community, as a project, as a technology, Flex absolutely is fighting > tooth and nail against the migration of developers to an HTML/JS stack. A > proper understanding of the difficulties of layout in HTML is relevant for > multiple reasons, including: > > 1) understanding how the simplicity of Flex layouts compare to HTML (or > other stacks) is important when Flex developers debate the merits of > various options. The Apache Flex community needs to be concerned not only > with the technical aspects of Apache Flex, but also with the marketing side > of things to give developers the ammunition needed to sell Flex as the > right choice for a project. > > 2) since there is an interest in this community in converting MXML/AS into > HTML/JS, the implications of how difficult mimicking Flex layouts in HTML > is an important topic > > Now, I agree that the community should be fairly laser-focused *right now* > on shipping an initial release. But that doesn't mean we should tell people > to not discuss HTML-related topics. They are relevant and they are > important to the future of this project. > >
