Alex, You keep referring to a "prototype". I might be missing something. Where can I find it/how do I run it?
EdB On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > > On 11/26/12 1:15 PM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: > >>> Instead, I want to leverage what is there, and specifically disallow support >>> for Flash APIs that will be hard to implement, at least in the early going. >>> In fact, the right test when building an app in this new framework would be >>> to not import any Flash classes. I would prefer to wrap important Flash >>> concepts in a way that makes them easier to implement on the HTML/JS side. >>> For example, why cross-compile all of the AS Flex button code? There's a >>> pretty good button baked into the HTML/JS stack. >> >> I think I abused the term API a bit. With JS player I meant the entire >> JS 'engine' (actively avoiding the term framework ;-)) that takes the >> compiled JS app and makes it "happen" in the browser. > Well, I may not understand what you mean by "engine", but in my prototype, I > don't think there really is one. The way I see it, apps are an assembly of > components with some glue code. I don't want to try to write another layer > that is like a VM/engine. >> >> The 'native' HTML/JS controls, as you call them, don't provide a >> consistent look and feel across browsers and platforms and certainly >> don't allow for skinning (yes, CSS allows for some, but not nearly >> what we're used to). This has always been one of the strong points of >> Flex and I think we should seriously consider making it one of the >> strong points of FlexJS. > Sure, folks are welcome to embark on an advanced skinnable set of > components, but IMO, the basic set should be pretty bare bones. Hopefully > there is some existing pattern for providing custom buttons in HTML/JS we > can just wrap. But I hope we don't have to try to transcode an AS button > implementation. That just sounds like a lot of work. > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
