Systems Development
Learn, Make, Share. Repeat.A New Hope
Posted on December 30, 2011Most, perhaps all, of the flex toolchain is offered to the Apache foundation.
This is encouraging.
My question is: Will Adobe help this project take root?
UPDATE:
The incubator site is coming up.
What a difference a year makes
Posted on November 20, 2011Flex and Mobile Flex. RIP.
On to HTML5, CSS3, and javascript.
First up is a study in application design, in hopes of re-creating some of the best parts of flex: Declarative UIs. Elegant databinding. Rich 3rd party components. One thing we leave behind is insulation from cross-browser concerns. Most, perhaps all, current mobile platforms contain a webkit-based web browser. I thought this meant that cross-browser issues were nonexistent on these platforms. Sadly, I was wrong. The two links below show a list view. stock.html is stock html5. iscroll.html uses a javascript library from cubiq.org, called iscroll4. I have tested these with my android phone, the new Nook color tablet, an iPad, and an iPhone. Only the ios-based devices render stock.html as expected. The android-based devices require the assistance of iscroll4. I miss Flex already…