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December 01, 2005
i.get.it, Flex
i.get.it, Flex: I came across this press release in the morning news search... CADPO introduces a new behind-the-firewall engineering training/assessment system, using Macromedia Flex for delivering the user interface to web browsers. The system requires a log-in to use, but the demonstration videos show the types of interactions. Points which struck me: (a) Much of the Flex 1.0 work has been for intranet rather than for internet, particularly because of the tight server integration... I suspect we'll see a change in the mix of realworld examples once the next-generation Flex splits into both standalone authoring and enhanced enterprise versions. (b) It's not just "what can the browser do?" but more "how can my serving computer work with the audience's viewing computers?", and serverside integration is still non-standardized for pure JavaScript UIs ("Ajax" as marketing term, eg). (c) SWF UIs can handle data-driven text quite easily, but also handle more media types, more predictably and economically, than relying on the varying current markup-oriented ways to do so.
Posted by John Dowdell at December 1, 2005 12:33 PM
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