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thirdshift
10-08-2004, 05:03 AM
I saw a comment in blog were someone said that a big difference between Flex and Laszlo was that Flex generated Flash 7 actionscript and Laszlo generates Flash 5. Does this really matter?

At first blush I don't think it does. LZX abstracts you away from having to work with actionscript directly right? So I am thinking that as long as you are able to get done what you want to get done with LZX the version of actionscript that it actually generates is irrelevant.

Is my thinking correct here? What could I possibly be missing because Laszlo renders to Flash 5 instead of 7?

whisperstorm
10-08-2004, 02:09 PM
You'd be missing the fact that many of your user base couldnt use your app because they dont have flash 7....

Also, AFAIK Laszlo is not joined at the hip with Flash. There's no reason why there couldnt be a java output, SVG, Longhorn, etc. etc.