Re: Flex

[Jonathan Vanasco <suppressed>]

Ext is good.  Personally, I like the MochiKit system (though a good  
friend maintains it).  A few of the big-guys use it for all their  
internal systems.

It has a neat dev enviroment - even has an interpreter for you to dev  
in.
	http://mochikit.com/examples/interpreter/index.html

On Dec 2, 2007, at 6:30 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote:

> On Dec 2, 2007 6:10 PM, David Scott <suppressed> wrote:
> > AJAX is anything but time-consuming once you get the hang of it.  I  
> > much
> > prefer it to traditional server-side dynamic page construction, which
> > really is time-consuming.
>
> My experience has been that even the best JavaScript tools (Firebug)
> are pretty weak compared to the Perl dev environment, and
> cross-browser problems are an ongoing issue, despite the wealth of JS
> libraries intended to paper over them.  Maybe Flex has these problems
> too, but in theory the cross-browser stuff could be better.
>
> It also sound nice to use a dev tool that was actually intended for
> GUI programming, rather than the bolted-on feel of JS + CSS + HTML.