Ask HN: Why not Flex?

Re:Ask HN: Why not Flex? by teej on Thursday September 03, 2009 @06:09PM (#803684)

1 - This is a completely valid point. There are tradeoffs in build a site in Flash. You have to put extra work into being crawler friendly - something you get out of the box with HTML/CSS.

2 - Depends on what you're doing. Animations definitely run smoother and with less resources in Flash than they do in HTML/CSS.

3 - A lot of Flex's layout capabilites "just work" out of the box. You don't have to figure out the complexities of the box model and you don't have to know the intricacies of floats. You just say "I want a container that positions things horizontally and I want them to be aligned on the top of the box" and it does it.

Flex's components I have found are incredibly hard to precisely skin. Then again, so is HTML if you don't have experience in it.

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Re:Ask HN: Why not Flex? by sunkencity on Friday September 04, 2009 @02:44AM (#804415)

re 2 - I disagree. On a powerful computer flash is OK, but on let's say a Core 2 duo 32 bit and an intel i950 graphics chip, almost any flash will take one of the cores to 100%...

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Re:Ask HN: Why not Flex? by teej on Friday September 04, 2009 @03:14PM (#805483)

And the Javascript equivalent wont?

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