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November 03, 2005
Strange and Amazing: AFLAX
It seems today is my title borrowing day, but I couldn't find a better title than the one Robin Debreuil has for his post about Paul Colton's amazing AFLAX, A JavaScript Library for Macromedia's Flash™ Platform.
This is absolutely strange and amazing because you write everything in JavaScript 'to create AJAX-type applications'. While you can do this with a text editor without touching the Flash IDE, you'll probably want to use it for creating graphic SWF assets, when you need them.
As far as I can see, AFLAX requires Macromedia Flash Player 8 and makes use of the new ExternalInterface, but I must admit I'm not sure I understand how the magic is done, for now.
License is GPL, AFLAX is open source, currently at version 0.1, documentation is a bit skimpy, does not support Opera.... Nevertheless the demos prove that this thing works.
Strange and amazing it is...
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AFLAX is already at version 0.22 now. Also the license is now 'Apache License Version 2.0'.
Posted by: Burak KALAYCI at Nov 5, 2005 1:49:19 AM
I'm up to version 0.3 now and have added some really cool demos.
Check it out: http://www.aflax.org
Posted by: Paul Colton at Nov 15, 2005 7:03:17 AM
Hi Paul,
Thanks for visiting and posting.
Congrats for the amazing work again.
Best regards,
Burak
Posted by: Burak KALAYCI at Nov 15, 2005 7:42:20 PM
AFLAX version is 0.33 now, and there are more cool samples...
Posted by: Burak KALAYCI at Nov 29, 2005 1:13:17 AM
