Re: Why Spark? (was Re: s:Spacer (was Re: Missing Spark components))

2012-03-03 Thread sébastien Paturel
Hi all, Im new to the mailing list so sorry if i do mistakes :) I'm personnally very concerned about the ease of learning curve of Flex for new users. Don't forget that the ease of use and power of this SDK suits to not only enterprise scale projects. It will be more true when the cross compil

CSS

2012-03-03 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
I mostly used CSS in the mx days. Though spark skins with fxg are easy for designers, CSS can be quicker for newbies, and is relevant to future HTML output. Thing is, I have found CSS styling to be a drag on performance. Any chance we can update our compiler to apply stylesheets at compile time

Re: CSS

2012-03-03 Thread Martin Heidegger
I have given CSS quite a bit of thoughts over time. Practically speaking: CSS is a file format that allows to set many properties with various detail for a huge set of components with few statements. Specially when I new dialect like SASS is used it allows to set a huge bunch of properties typ

Re: Why Spark? (was Re: s:Spacer (was Re: Missing Spark components))

2012-03-03 Thread Cortlandt Winters
I hope I didn't come on too strong with my tone. I agree that we're not really differing much. And I do agree that spark is a better architecture from a programmers point of view and for the long term. The point that I was trying to make is that many flex users both in the past and in the future w

Re: Why Spark? (was Re: s:Spacer (was Re: Missing Spark components))

2012-03-03 Thread Cortlandt Winters
I totally agree with this and will try to help with it. On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 6:12 AM, sébastien Paturel wrote: > Hi all, > Im new to the mailing list so sorry if i do mistakes :) > > I'm personnally very concerned about the ease of learning curve of Flex > for new users. > Don't forget that the

Re: Why Spark? (was Re: s:Spacer (was Re: Missing Spark components))

2012-03-03 Thread Rob Sheely
Maybe we can build on the concept of the Spark BorderContainer (quoting the docs): The BorderContainer container provides a set of CSS styles and class properties to control the border and background of the container. A set of subclassed Spark components with CSS styling implemented. Or more s

Re: Why Spark? (was Re: s:Spacer (was Re: Missing Spark components))

2012-03-03 Thread jude
That's the plan (loosely). A set of core components and then convenience components. On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Rob Sheely wrote: > Maybe we can build on the concept of the Spark BorderContainer (quoting > the docs): > > The BorderContainer container provides a set of CSS styles and class