Oscar Trelles

Hmmmm… “Flex”?

Maybe it is only me, but the name isn’t really inspirational. As a matter of fact, it reminds me of those exercise machines from the infomercials Of course, no offense intended. However, I believe the new name stresses one of the main characteristics of the ex-Royale, and communicates it very well.

Flexibility is one of the major points that made Royale attractive to me when I first knew about the initiative. Although I got into Flash learning to love the Timelime, it can be successfully avoided for a number of projects. Further more, creating Flash movies on-the-fly has been one the things many of us have been dreaming about for some time. Now that is possible thanks to MXML, the markup language supported by Macromedia Flex.

Now, companies and developers using industry standards to develop Internet apps have nothing but greeen lights to jump into the production of RIAs, and take advantage of the Flash Player ubiquity to deliver richer experiences. And you were worried about Sparkle…

Saying anything else would be just repeating what you have probably already read in other blogs and news sites. So, I will just point you to the source of all the information available about Flex (I’m yet to finish reviewing everything myself):

Macromedia Flex