Re: The Future might be Flex 2

How about WPF/E support? WPF is actually a really slick platform.

WPF main issue is going to be hardware support for the next half-decade, beyond the fact that it's not out yet.

We're investing "next-gen" UIs here that could run on our customer's hardware, and alas the availability 3D acceleration is proving quite an issue.... almost all recent hardware (apart from thin-clients RDP terminals) our customers bought supports 64bit today or could with an OS upgrade, but the ratio of 3D accelerating hardware is close to zero (at best they only have Intel integrated chipsets... if they had ATI or nVidia chipsets, there would be a hope).
At this point the only option is WPF in "ugly" mode, which is bearable but still slower than even WinForms. Eye-candy WPF brings even top-of-the-line servers to a crawl, and most regular client machines don't have the RAM to run it without swapping (well, their requirement was to run Office apps, and that's what they can do).

Flash can at least claim to be working on any machine out there... though it's a bit over-extended IMO in the UI department (it struggles already to scroll through small lists f.i.).

Eric
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