Comments on: Flex Consumer Portal UI: www.belgacomtv.be http://www.waldosmeets.com/2006/11/16/612/ Sales Engineer from Adobe Benelux on Rich Internet Applications, Web 2.0 and Adobe Flex in the Benelux. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:49:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta1 hourly 1 By: Waldo Smeets http://www.waldosmeets.com/2006/11/16/612/comment-page-1/#comment-322 Waldo Smeets Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:34:46 +0000 #comment-322 John, I share your concerns on whether Flex should be used for regular websites or not. Sometimes it works out fine, sometimes not. It actually reminds me that I also should have blogged the critical issues that I raised in an email to them when reviewing the website. - I agree with the back button and bookmarking. I already discussed this with them and they are aware that this is a need. I've been told they are working on it. (this site heavily uses States, my opinion is that Adobe should try to link States into the History Manager, like we did with ViewStack) - Regarding saving; they provided Save as PDF for most important information sections, so I don't feel like that is missing (and I think if users had both choices they wouldn't even think about hitting Save) John, I share your concerns on whether Flex should be used for regular websites or not. Sometimes it works out fine, sometimes not.

It actually reminds me that I also should have blogged the critical issues that I raised in an email to them when reviewing the website.

- I agree with the back button and bookmarking. I already discussed this with them and they are aware that this is a need. I’ve been told they are working on it. (this site heavily uses States, my opinion is that Adobe should try to link States into the History Manager, like we did with ViewStack)

- Regarding saving; they provided Save as PDF for most important information sections, so I don’t feel like that is missing (and I think if users had both choices they wouldn’t even think about hitting Save)

]]> By: John M. Stallier http://www.waldosmeets.com/2006/11/16/612/comment-page-1/#comment-321 John M. Stallier Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:37:55 +0000 #comment-321 It is just a HTML+AJAX feeling site. It is just another showcase on the bad use of Flex, very slow response in slow machine. User cannot save useful information, cannot deep link bookmark, cannot click back button. It is just a HTML+AJAX feeling site. It is just another showcase on the bad use of Flex, very slow response in slow machine. User cannot save useful information, cannot deep link bookmark, cannot click back button.

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