Pros :- Actionscript and Flash are the same thing to the outside world, Flex
goes beyond Flash- Adobe will market AS as a language for games and video, not
officially for Flex enterprise apps, this is confusing and to be honest casts a
shadow over Flex which we cannot do anything about...
Cons
> From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 11:58 PM
> To: dev@flex.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [Dart] - playing around
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> On 2/2/13 3:02 PM, "Frank Pepermans" wrote:
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> > Dart as a language may be more accessi
Dart as a language may be more accessible to non-Flex coders,
if it really kicks off that is.
I've nothing against Actionscript myself, but perhaps it will always turn
off people because it used to be 1 - on - 1 to Flash?
and Dart also has JavaScript interop support,
has really nice language f
to an actual function, instead of the inline notation here
-Original Message-
From: Frank Pepermans
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 11:01 PM
To: dev@flex.apache.org
Subject: Re: [Dart] - playing around
Spotted that project as well,
Only downside is, that it targets the HTML5 canvas (wel
as soon as we find time.
The plan is to add some basic ui components on top of dartflash and if this
succeeds then we can take it a step further.
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Frank Pepermans
wrote:
I've been playing around with Dart for a day,
been doing a huge Flex project for 2 years
I've been playing around with Dart for a day,
been doing a huge Flex project for 2 years, but the next one will have to be
HTML,
so I decided to give it a good look, as I always do, by developing a small
project.
I chose to try and build a very small Flex-like framework and see how far I
could
Well not necessarily,
Either via DOM emulation or swapping the PlayerGlobal with a DOM API, you
could technically build full AS components that get converted into JS.
Given the second choice, then you'd still need to be aware of the HTML
quirks as if you would handcraft JS components.
The fir
I concur, this is huge news for the future of Flex! Congrats to making this
possible!
About the vanilla sdk, I have some Jangaroo experience, there you can build
a full AS Button component,
which compiles to JS without the need of a vanilla SDK.
I assume technically you can do the same, if th
