Macromedia / Adobe has released the beta of Flex 2. Flex is a superb way to build Rich Internet Applications. The Beta includes Flex Builder, Action Script 3, Flex Charting Components, Flex Enterprises Services and the Flash Player 8.5. Our experience with Flex has been very good. Flex will impact the way web applications are designed in a big way!
Microsoft too, announced the Beta 2 Preview of Internet Explorer 7. IE7 now has tabbed browsing, RSS support and a cleaner user interface. They did spend a lot of development time tightening the security as well.
I still love Firefox!
>>”I still love Firefox!”
Well, I guess thats how the community would react on seeing sparkle.. like, “sparkle has this, sparkle has that, sparkle bas better blah blah. I still love Flash”
lol
Ha ha! Probably!
I have not tried out Sparkle yet. Would love to hear from somebody who’s tried it. I think there was a developer’s preview out.
Hello Nirav,
I’m ALIVE… and you that I HATE FF (only because it’s painfully slow.) You know what, it would be gr8 for my ex-company to revise company policy and make it mandatory for all employees to use IE (7B or 6) because from what I’ve heard is that FF is damn slow even on PCs with enormous memory and processor speed. Employees are losing valuable time because they are using a buggy software that takes up entire memory and hangs too often [affects productivity, you know].
A Google search on ‘firefox is slow’ will give more details on this buggy open source software.
I guess you are still hooked.
Any ways, missing you guys sooooo much,
Best regards,
Sagar
Hey Sagar,
Good to hear from you! Hope you are doing good.
I haven’t done any benchmarks of speed for IE7/FF. And my experience with FF has been extremely good. There have been a few annoyances, but the newers versions have solved them. Or that the good things about FF don’t make up for the bad things.
If FF was so buggy and slow, it would not have such a fan following. Only the good survive in Open Source. Or rather, only the best!
I like IE7 too, but I think it’s a catching up to FF. There is not much in terms of innovation in it.
Keep in touch 🙂
:Nirav