Flex on InfoQ
My latest post “How Flex can transform the user experience on the web” has been picked up by InfoQ, the new enterprise software development portal created by Floyd Marinescu. Floyd was the original creator of theserverside.com, and his new portal looks very promising.
http://www.infoq.com/news/Flex-Transform-User-Experience
How Flex can transform the user experience on the web
Now that the industry has turned its attention to the client-side and the user experience, the quality of web user interfaces can be expected to improve at a very fast pace after ten years of virtual hibernation.
In that context, Flex offers a series of unique features that can profoundly transform the way people interact with web applications. These features include:
- Expressiveness (vector graphics)
- Performance (JIT compiler)
- Real time (binary sockets and pub/sub messaging)
- Rich media (video and audio streaming)
- Offline support (local storage and desktop client)
None of these features is unique in itself. What is unique is that all of them are available together in a ubiquitous and extremely lightweight runtime environment (the Flash virtual machine) that is available today in all major browsers across all major operating systems.
