May 2008 Issue

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Cast a spell bound impression with Flex

Websites are no longer limited to text and pictures. Cutting edge websites of today provide an effective mix of audio and visual information. Flex website is the one that besides including information about the company also possess some stunning effects that leaves the visitors spellbound.

To make your site a more interactive design you can make use of flex which is a powerful tool when utilized properly. Using flex creates movement and interest in your website as well as interesting navigation bars, buttons and logos. Due to the constant development of technology the level of excellence that web users now expect far exceeds that of the static pages of the past that were designed to accommodate slow connections. However with faster connections web masters can incorporate many more features such as flex into their websites.

Over the releases of new versions of Flex, Macromedia has made Flex more and more controllable via programming, where they have it positioned as a competitor to HTML to build interactive web sites and applications such as an e-commerce store. Macromedia argues that Flex Programming is the way to go instead of HTML because of the following reasons:

  • Flex movies load faster and save on download time because Flex is vector based where as HTML is not.
  • Flex intelligently 'caches' it's movies so they don't have to be reloaded.
  • Flex gives the users (the person viewing/using the Flash movie) a more responsive 'rich-client' like experience.

Here are justification for Myths associated with Flex websites:

Myth: You can’t use the Back button in Flex.

Fact: You can use the Back button on a properly constructed Flex site. In fact, Back button (and history) support in Flex and Flex is far superior to the support available in Ajax applications.

Myth: DRM is the future

Fact: Flex’s ability to stream video is by far the best web experience for this medium. The fact that DRM’able Flex video is on it’s way shouldn’t hold back organizations like the BBC from utilizing it’s quality, cross platform-ness and penetration.

Myth: Flex requires a special server!

Fact: Flex was a server in the 1.* time frame but it no longer needs a server at all. You can deploy any Flex SWF file to any HTTP/s server on the planet with no restrictions, no licencing, free, free, free.

Myth: Flex is for designers.

Fact: Flex and its IDE, Flex Builder, were created with developers in mind. MovieClips, symbol libraries, and timelines are nowhere in sight. Flex applications are created with the markup language MXML and ActionScript 3, a strongly-typed and object-oriented language based on an ECMA standard.

 

Myth: Flex is slow.

Fact: Today’s Flex webapps are fast, reliable and user friendly. It all depends on who’s writing the code.

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