Language guru Bruce Eckel blogged about his choice of Flash as a technology for delivering cross-platform multimedia experiences. Eckel says he chose OpenLaszlo over Flex because of licensing issues and due to uncertainty about the future of the product. Interestingly the post is dated October 6, just a day before David Wadhwani’s heavily blogged (by everyone and their dog) announcement of Flex 2. So now what’s the future of Flex look like?
For those of you who can’t wait until October 17 to see Zorn (Flex Builder 2.0), here’s a video of Kevin’s Web 2.0 demo of the new Eclipse-based IDE. Personally I hate IDEs, and I still don’t use Zorn for day-to-day Flex hacking, but I have to admit I’m feeling a bit left out of all the excitement now. Maybe I should really try the Vim plugin.
One of Eckel’s readers also wrote asking him not to use Flash because of accessibility problems. Developers: have you seen the accessibility support in Flex? I know it works for sure because the QA engineer banging on it with JAWS all day unfortunately sits right next to me in the Bangalore office.
And, by the way, I’m not the only one with a preference for cafes over office cubes: apparently the entire OpenLaszlo development team works out of a cafe!
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