Using Flex to render HTML/CSS as been thought to be a ton of work, but could
definitely happen with community support. I have an old prototype on my
blog that I've been refactoring in my spare time.
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Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
On 1/4/12 2:03 PM, "Lionel Andre Pierre" <lionel@pierresolutions.com> wrote:
> Please forgive if this is out of turn or place, it seems people are making
> suggestions about the work they would like to see done on Flex and I would
> like to contribute.
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> I've used Flex for about 5 years and always found text formatting to be
> difficult and limited.
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> I would like to see as an alternative to TLF (Text Layout Framework).
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> Flex could benefit from some development geared toward correctly displaying
> HTML/CSS formatted text.
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> The reasons behind this are:
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> 1. Flex applications could more easily tap into content that is being
> shared through traditional web pages.
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> 2. HTML/CSS knowledge could be leveraged against Flex instead of the
> TLF approach which cannot be used anywhere else (AFAIK)
>
> 3. The MX Text Components were heading that way (with the HTMLText
> properties) but the implementation was never up to par, I hope something can
> be done there.
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> Lionel
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