Poukisa Flex ak Apollo ap domine

Yè swa mwen te pase aswè a ak kèk zanmi.

Premye 3 èdtan yo te pase nan Borders k ap travay sou yon sit kliyan ki te gen kèk kapris kwa-navigatè. Sit la te ekri ak pafè, valab CSS. However, with Firefox 2 on a PC the bulleted menu list had an ugly pixel shift and on Internet Explorer 6, one of the CSS methods didn't work at all.

Firefox 2 (tcheke ki chanjman pixel etranj ki fè li sanble prèske italik):

Sa a se ki jan li ta dwe gade:

Each time that we tested something, another browser broke. We were testing across OSX with Safari and Firefox and then XP with IE6, IE7, and Firefox. Bill's expertise at CSS and my love of JavaScript eventually led to a solution that didn't require browser specific hacks… but it was a ridiculous (but fun) exercise that web designers go through every single day.

Lefèt ke Apple, Mozilla, microsoft, ak Opera yo pa kapab ekri aplikasyon ki itilize yon Entènèt Creole ta dwe anbarasan pou yo chak. Mwen te kapab absoliman konprann si chak navigatè te gen karakteristik pwòp li yo ki ta ka sipòte nan scripting pwòp yo - men sa a se bagay debaz yo.

Sa a se yon egzanp pafè poukisa Apolo ak Flex kanpe yon gwo chans pou bale entènèt la. Mwen te ekri kèk jou de sa sou Scrapblog, an application written in Flex (and quickly ported to Apollo). If you haven't had a chance to see it – ale eseye li soti – it's nothing short of amazing.

Flex kouri anba Adobe Flash's plugin navigatè. Sa a se yon Plugin ki 99.9% anpil of the Internet runs (you're running every time you look at a Youtube video). Apollo utilizes the same engine but allows you to actually run in an application window rather than being limited to the browser.

Ki sa ki Flex?

Soti nan Adobe: Fondasyon aplikasyon Flex la konsiste de MXML, ActionScript 3.0, ak bibliyotèk klas Flex la. Devlopè yo itilize MXML pou deklare eleman itilizatè koòdone itilizatè yo epi itilize ActionScript pou lojik kliyan ak kontwòl pwosedi yo. Devlopè ekri MXML ak kòd sous ActionScript lè l sèvi avèk Adobe Flex Builder la? IDE oswa yon editè tèks estanda.

Etandone fristrasyon nou yo nan bati yon meni kwa-navigatè senp, imajine ap eseye bati yon aplikasyon entènèt tout ki sipòte atravè navigatè! Alafen, devlopè yo dwe ekri antay oswa navigatè-espesifik scripting asire eksperyans nan menm kèlkeswa ki kalite navigatè oswa Desktop ou jwenn tèt ou ap travay sou. Pa gen pwoblèm kwa-navigatè ak avantaj adisyonèl la nan fasil Porting aplikasyon an Apollo kouri nan oswa soti nan navigatè a.

Akote de pa mangonmen ki jan li sanble nan chak navigatè, gen lòt avantaj. Ekri pou Flex fè pa require formal programming skills. I think that's why many professional programmers scoff at utilizing Flex or Adobe. They'd rather you spent tens of thousands of dollars having them develop the feature in ASP.NET that takes a few lines of MXML.

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