Comments on: Time magazine publishes top 50 Web sites http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/2008/01/03/time-magazines-publishes-top-50-web-sites A blog about our experience with Adobe Flex Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:52:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Yakov Fain http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/2008/01/03/time-magazines-publishes-top-50-web-sites/comment-page-1#comment-34736 Yakov Fain Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:47:51 +0000 http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/?p=282#comment-34736 One of the readers (thank you, Zohar) gave me a reference to a Web site created by James Ward to check if a site was created in Flex http://www.jamesward.org/is_it_flex/ If you try this URLhttp://www.time.com/time/flash/time50BestWebsites/top5/top5_websites.swf you'll see that the site was not created in Flex. Oh, well, at least it's ActionScript :) One of the readers (thank you, Zohar) gave me a reference to a Web site created by James Ward to check if a site was created in Flex
http://www.jamesward.org/is_it_flex/

If you try this URLhttp://www.time.com/time/flash/time50BestWebsites/top5/top5_websites.swf you’ll see that the site was not created in Flex. Oh, well, at least it’s ActionScript :)

]]> By: Anatole Tartakovsky http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/2008/01/03/time-magazines-publishes-top-50-web-sites/comment-page-1#comment-34732 Anatole Tartakovsky Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:18:32 +0000 http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/?p=282#comment-34732 Yakov, Sorry - no Flex there, just pure Flash with minor customization - as a result 64K instead of 400K it would take with Flex + data. Actually there is another SWF there - for rss processing - similar to our WebService one. I would not expect Time or other media companies to use Flex for mainstream publishing till standard RSLs will be on 80%+ of computers - sometime within 4-5 month. Anatole Yakov,
Sorry – no Flex there, just pure Flash with minor customization – as a result 64K instead of 400K it would take with Flex + data. Actually there is another SWF there – for rss processing – similar to our WebService one. I would not expect Time or other media companies to use Flex for mainstream publishing till standard RSLs will be on 80%+ of computers – sometime within 4-5 month.
Anatole

]]>