DISQUS

Albert Francis · 6 months ago

I keep thinking to myself: Will Adobe really miss the HTML5 train with all this Flash/Flex stuff? I understand they want to control the internet with their own technology, but the future is not headed in that direction and Adobe's very comfortable position with Flash will soon be seriously challenged with next generation browsers that will support HTML5.

Wake up Adobe!?

Brandon · 6 months ago

So is this basically their answer to Expression Blend for Silverlight design?

flashlight er... silverlight · 6 months ago

OMG - yeah and The Beatles' Help was a response to the Monkees' Head...

Anthony Ha · 6 months ago

Oh snap!

John Smith · 6 months ago

It's a good news for developer, who can import the Flash file into Flash Builder 4.

Larry Maccherone · 6 months ago

Flex is not "basically the development model that people use to build Flash applications". It's a framework with: (1) form like controls, (2) charting, (3) data handling, and (4) network communication capabilities, etc. Think of it like the Spring framework for Java development. You don't have to use Spring when using Java but it's fairly common to do so for certain types of applications. Similarly, Flex is one option for building Flash applications, but it is possible to build Flash applications without using the Flex framework. Flex is particularly good if you are building anything that works with data. But it's probably overkill if you are doing a media oriented site/application. The IDE that used to be called Flex Builder and is now Flash Builder can be used to build non-Flex applications and that's why they renamed it. As you point out, it clears up some confusion.

Now, if you want confusion, the name of the Flex SDK is still confusing. It is essentially two things: (1) the compiler you use to convert your Flash or Flex designs into a form that can be run by the Flash player, and (2) the library files for the Flex framework. You can use the Flex SDK to build Flash applications that do not use Flex at all! These probably should be separate packages. One entitled the Flash SDK and the other entitled the Flex Framework.

Anthony Ha · 6 months ago

Ah, that's super-helpful, thanks. I'll try to clean up the language in my post to make it more accurate.

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