Flex 4 Gumbo more details
April 12th, 2008
Adobe has published more even information on features of Flex 4 codenamed Gumbo - read original information here. As subtitle says, the news covers now part "Design in mind". Yes, graphical design.
First thought - great news. Applications made by Flex developers often have standard skin layout without any changes, even through CSS. Therefore it seems that we'll see Thermo launched with Gumbo.
Second thought - can't wait to see if there will be some more mature features for developers. We need to await for more details on "Accelerated development", "Horizontal platform improvements" and "Broadening horizons". Better refactoring, better tests, better code hinting? Maybe - not confirmed, yet. There were some rumors about adding Cairngorm code generator into Flex Builder. That would be nice.
Microsoft prepares really big offensive with Silverlight. Simple: Adobe has more experience with design, Microsoft with development techniques. What I believe Adobe can do is - catch up with the framework itself to meet up the standards while adding even more design pimp-my-app features. Like Thermo.
Cheers,
W.
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