[geGIS] Flex in geomajas

[Pieter De Graef]

Hi,

i've been running tests on using Flex as a mapping technology for 
geomajas. The first results seem very promising: it is very fast and 
relatively easy to program for. Besides, Flex (or flash) has a market 
penetration of over 90% (flash 9 that is).
The downside is that the bridge between Javascript and Flex' 
ActionScript is slow. So we should avoid sending large datastreams 
(large amount of features) over it.

Anyway, the main question it wanted to ask on this list, is this:
how commited is everyone to browser built-in technologies (such as VML 
in Internet explorer or SVG in FireFox)?

We could for example simply throw out both VML and SVG, and replace them 
both with flex, but i am afraid that many companies' IT sections will 
object to geomajas requiring a plugin to work...

Any thoughts?

Regards,

Pieter De Graef

GeoSparc nv.
http://www.geosparc.com/

Sponsor of: http://www.geomajas.org/