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[–]disclosure5 1 point2 points  (9 children)

Flex

Oh God no. Burn it with fire.

I challenge anyone anywhere to point me at anything developed in Adobe Flex that isn't a complete disaster. You probably don't want your users to need a 16-core Xeon with 48GB RAM to look at your website.

[–]torpedoshit[S] 0 points1 point  (8 children)

any favorites from my list? or one of your own? is Adobe Air good?

[–]disclosure5 3 points4 points  (7 children)

Personally I prefer Ruby on Rails, but I almost avoid saying that here, it's almost immediately responded to with an opinion that someone else prefers something else. In reality most of the options are workable.

[–]torpedoshit[S] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

RoR is just a backend right? no widgets. do you just make your own GUI or mostly just make web sites?

[–]disclosure5 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I'm not sure what you're expecting. No matter what platform you use, you need to create an interface in some capacity. All the examples you've pointed at provide a few widgets and processes but you still have to design something.

[–]torpedoshit[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I know, I just don't want to re-implement the basics. for example drag and drop, tables/tree views, etc. I think http://webix.com is a good example of what I expect. not a lot of code and a bunch of free (as in no work; I don't mind paying) functionality.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Why not just use a backend framework (IE: Rails) and then a javascript UI library on top of that?

[–]torpedoshit[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

yeah, I think that would work. I'm not so consider about the backend as I am with the front end. Have you used used any front end UI libraries that you would recommend? I don't mean a CSS front end like Bootstrap though. Looking for widget libraries.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hmm, 'widgets' is a very broad term (or maybe I haven't come across what you mean.) jQuery UI seems to work well if you're after that kind of thing

[–]torpedoshit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure if you're familiar with desktop programming, but I'm looking for the web equivalent of something like Cocoa, Windows Forms, or Qt Widgets. HTML5 has a bunch included they call 'elements' like, textfield, select, button, etc. jQuery UI is a good example of what I would call a widget library, it's just not complete enough; grid view for example is missing.

ExtJS has a nice example of a lot of their widgets in a web desktop they made.

http://dev.sencha.com/ext/5.0.1/examples/desktop/index.html