[geGIS] [Majas-users] Flex in geomajas

[Aurélien Pelletier]

I work with client in the french public sector, additional plugin to the 
navigator like flash is usualy an issue.

About mapping and flex you might want to check out
http://openscales.org

Regards,

Aurélien

Pieter De Graef wrote:
> 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
>
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