7. We Flash
â˘âŻ Browser and OS independence
â˘âŻ Secure and Trusted
â˘âŻ Huge installed base
â˘âŻ Graphics and animation in your browser
Flex pros and cons
8. We Flash
â˘âŻ Decent tool set
â˘âŻ Decent image support
â˘âŻ ActionScript
Flex pros and cons
9. Flash isnât Perfect
â˘âŻ Not Windows, Not Visual Studio
â˘âŻ ActionScript is not C++
â˘âŻ SWF Size/Modularity
â˘âŻ Hardware isnât accessible
â˘âŻ Adobe is our Frienemy
â˘âŻ Missing support for jpg Compression
Flex pros and cons
12. Your users are your free cloud!
â˘âŻ Free CPU & Storage!
â˘âŻ Cuts down on server round trips
â˘âŻ More responsive (usually)
â˘âŻ 3rd Party APIs Directly from your client
â˘âŻ Flash 10 enables direct load
User Cloud
13. You get what you pay for.
â˘âŻ Your user is a crappy sysadmin
â˘âŻ Hard to debug problems you canât see
â˘âŻ Heterogeneous Hardware
â˘âŻ Some OS Differences
User Cloud
14. Client Side Challenges
â˘âŻ Hard to debug problems you canât see
â˘âŻ Every 3rd party API has downtime
â˘âŻ You get blamed for everything
â˘âŻ Caching madness
User Cloud
15. Dealing with nasty problems
Logging
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Ask customers directly
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Find local customers
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Test, test, test
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