Comments on WebORB Blog: Oi vai, Coach Wei!

I agree, Adobe is using the wrong tactics to compe...

2006-10-11T08:34:00.000-06:00

I agree, Adobe is using the wrong tactics to compete with Ajax. Instead of emphasizing how 'compatible' flex is with Ajax, they should be talking about how much better Flex/Flash is. A case in point is the new ridiculously named 'Flex-Ajax Bridge'. Even from a technical point of view the name is appalling, where is the Ajax? Instead of jumping on the band-wagon, Adobe should be concentrating on building up its own bunch of followers and emphasizing the advantages (of which there are many) of Flash/Flex over Ajax.

Hey Rob,I was not trying to compare, I was just be...

2006-10-09T21:43:00.000-06:00

Hey Rob,

I was not trying to compare, I was just being facetious. In fact, I am quite annoyed by the comparisons I see everywhere. These two things are incomparable. Yes, Ajax is good for a certain type of projects and Flex certainly rules for others. So when we're talking about building enterprise applications (which is what Coach is discussing in his article), it seems to be a lame defense tactic to attack Flex.

Btw, the Ajax projects I built used .NET on the backend and we didn't have WebORB for .NET ready yet.

Cheers,
Mark

In fact even Alex Russell (creator of Dojo) said @...

2006-10-09T20:32:00.000-06:00

In fact even Alex Russell (creator of Dojo) said @ The Ajax Experience that if some technology is widely adopted it becomes a standard; he was referring to the xmlHttpRequest object, which in fact, is not a W3C standard.

Now, I somewhat disagree with your comparison of Flex and Ajax ... they just can't be compared. Both have advantages and disadvantages and feat different purposes. You just said you finished a few Ajax projects, why didn't you use Flex? Because there was no need. It's like comparing html and desktop apps.

JavaScript can be a pain, though it's not just JavaScript, but DOM, and DHTML... but that's why there are libraries that create an abstraction layer and allow you to interact with that, which works perfectly on all browsers (jquery, dojo).