Since FLEX became industrial trendy, I’ve seen many developers learning FLEX. Learning technologies is always good. However, abusing technologies is not always good.
For example, there are many message boards and forum made with HTML, CSS, PHP, etc. Why the hell would you convert this great application only using FLEX to recreate the wheel? (guessing only UI part is done using FLEX). It is not functional at all if FLEX is the only technology to create UI. You can’t even compete it with other message boards that made with traditional UI technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. FLEX has its own place. I think it’s meant to be in the enterprise level web application development where you’d need rapid development and standard practice implemented.
Remember why flash was blamed for the annoying advertisements? FLEX will be placed into the same situation as Flash if it is being misused.
Anyways, my name is shinhee and I’m here to complain about how developers seem to use FLEX in different way.
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Keep complaining… mainstream developers are busy Working.Only a few “community experts” and Adobe mullahs will ever read this shit.
I can think of a few reasons to re-create the wheel in Flex.
1) Sometimes re-writing an existing project in a new technology is a great way to learn that new technology. I believe the same can be said for Flex.
2) Sometimes it is appropriate to keep technology / interface consisent across all faces of an app. If you already have a Flash or Flex front end to your app, it may not make sense to tack on a HTML portion. You you may want to use ‘X’ functionality in “Y” technology. In this case, X is a discussion board, and Y is Flex.
3) You think you can build a better mousetrap. Will Flex allow us to build a better interface for a discussion board? Maybe. I don’t know. I wouldn’t discourage someone from trying, though.
I’m not complaining in a way that flex is a bad technology. I’m complaining about developers mentality. Learingin new technologies is good again. I’m learing flex myself too. What would be devleloper’s role in web application development?
Choosing the right technologies for a given project. You don’t want to use flex in a project where traiditional technologies are much better choices.
In a personal project, abusing technologies is good ’cause you can learn a lot from it.
Anyways thanks for your comment.