(Macromedia FleX Markup Language) An XML-based set of tags used with Adobe's Flex development system to describe the user interface in Flash applications. Introduced in 2004, it is used in conjunction with ActionScript for creating interactive Flash programs. See Flex and Flash.
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- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
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- Blog posts 2008-04-06
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- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
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- Discussion threads 2007-04-25
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- Book chapters 2007-04-01
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- Blog posts 2007-02-26
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- Blog posts 2007-01-29
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- After writing about the Rich Internet Applications vs. HTML paper by Forrester Research I came across another paper that they released during the last week of December which hits a little closer to home: Ajax Or Flex?: How To Select RIA Technologies. Once you buy into the fact that...
- Blog posts 2007-01-05
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- Blog posts 2006-11-07
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- Blog posts 2006-07-19
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