On 6/15/2012 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.
I agree there is benefit to debating various options and
alternatives. I disagree that this list is the place for such
discussions, as such discussions are unrelated to the development of the
Flex SDK.
Even if you disagree with me on that, I fail to see how this thread
has brought about a discussion of merits of various technology approaches.
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
The conversation, thus far, had nothing to do with the development of
the Apache Flex SDK.
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.
However, the post that started this conversation was neither relevant
to the development of the Flex SDK nor to HTML. It was just someone
venting about problems they had. It triggered a bunch of people
recommending certain JS Frameworks; which is also not relevant to the
development of the Flex SDK.
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