Comments on: White Paper: Flex, Silverlight or HTML5? Time to decide…

By: To Flex or not to Flex: that is the question: | PointSource

To Flex or not to Flex: that is the question: | PointSource — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:45:50 +0000

[...] A whitepaper comparing Flex, Silverlight and HTML5 http://www.scottlogic.co.uk/blog/colin/2011/05/… [...]

By: Huh

Huh — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:53:31 +0000

They didn’t “drop Flex”, they’re following the same model as IBM’s Eclipse development.

By: Richard, Flex Applicaiton Development

Richard, Flex Applicaiton Development — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:27:22 +0000

It’s great.

By: Colin Eberhardt

Colin Eberhardt — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:24:53 +0000

Hi Luis,

I have written bout the recent Adobe announcements here:

http://www.scottlogic.co.uk/blog/colin/2011/11/the-untimely-demise-of-the-plugin-and-how-lob-developments-will-suffer/

I can totally understand that they have dropped mobile Flash plugin development to concentrate on their won HTML5 tooling. Adobe could do really well in this space.

Also, Adobe’s mobile AIR looks like it could be a great technology for cross-platform mobile development.

However, what I do not understand is why they dropped Flex. For the desktop (which is still a massive market), Flex still makes a lot of sense.

Colin E.

By: Luis Alvarez

Luis Alvarez — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:52:45 +0000

Colin, I’d love to hear what you think now in the light of recent announcements made by Adobe.
http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/
Great paper
-Luis

By: KNayak

KNayak — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:04:32 +0000

Hi,
Excellent Paper.
Regards,
KNayak

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:59:28 +0000

An important technology you missed is GWT and similar. Layers over JavaScript that address some browser issues, but may introduce others.

Also, there is Echo2 and ZK, driving rich applications from the server. Developing over multiple tiers is expensive.

I think we can drop Silverlight off the list. Many issues, and not supported on Linux, Android etc.

Anthony

By: Ivan Sanabria

Ivan Sanabria — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:18:46 +0000

Hi Colin, I enjoyed very much reading your paper. It gives a clear summary of the context and the options. The Pros and Cons tables are straight forward.

Thanks for posted it!

Iván