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That new (?) Adobe web app maker thingee doohickus web framework

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scootermaster

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That's pretty much it.

What the heck does that thing even do, anyway, and is it any better than all those other ones that are out there? (I think there was a thread about a bunch of freeware ones awhile ago. The names are escaping me).

 
Flex?

I'm guessing you're comparing to Google Web Toolkit, but it's really something quite different. Flex builds apps in Flash, and uses something called Adobe AIR to run the app on the desktop. GWT is all about building AJAX (web) applications using reusable widgets and proven developer tools such as Eclipse.
 
i saw a demo of a a Flex app designed for eBay.

it was like viewing eBay with a browser, but without the typical Browser stuff (re-load buttons).

i was thinking that, after ten years of designing images for back, forward, home (my favorite is
the tepee), maybe the graphics designers that design those buttons said ENOUGH.
 
Originally posted by: scootermaster
Originally posted by: George P Burdell
Are you talking about http://www.adobe.com/products/air/ ??
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Yes, that's what I'm talking about!

So what's the point of this, versus, say, Zend, or Cake, or that one that starts with a "d" or the other 4534534543 web "frameworks" out there?
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You're confusing a ton of things here. Cake, Django (I assume that's what you meant), Rails, Trax etc are a set of classes that let you do common web app tasks faster and easier in PHP/Python/Ruby etc.

AIR is a new runtime, which is basically a WebKit browser that gives you access to objects standard browsers don't. On FF/IE/Opera etc you can use javascript to access objects such as the Window, Document, events etc, while with AIR, it gives you additional things like the ability to access the local file system, sockets, a local db, tell whether the app is online/offline etc. So AIR isn't just a framework that makes existing stuff easier (like Prototype jQuery), but gives you the ability to do things which were impossible before.
 
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