Comments on: Flash Lite 2 is a Presentation Layer

By: Luke Bayes

Luke Bayes — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:25:38 +0000

Hey Jesse,

Great post.

Ali Mills and I have been working on a distributed desktop client to Google apis in Flash Player 9 and ran into the same header problems that you described. As it turned out, we had to completely rebuild the HTTP client in ActionScript 3 using a socket connection. The problem isn’t with Google’s service, the problem is that the Flash Player doesn’t actually implement HTTP 1.1, and the features that it does implmeent, aren’t implemented correctly. The player will just automatically change your HTTP method, and doestn’t support PUT or DELETE. Hopefully Adobe will address this in future versions as this will impact our ability to integrate with many modern Rails apps as well.

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:55:05 +0000

Correct.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:51:48 +0000

Is it true that FlashLite doesn’t support NetConnection?

By: Bill Perry

Bill Perry — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:39:16 +0000

Great article, thanks for sharing your real world experiences with the community. It’s good for developers to understand what’s possible and the workarounds necessary to create different types of applications.

By: Mason

Mason — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:53:07 +0000

Fun topic! Just to note – I’ve had pretty reasonable success building a Flash Lite 2 application that uses AMFPHP remoting. It’s a simple application that allows a login, registration, and viewing users as a list. This was made possible by wrapping it in Zinc. The main issues were with the application layer design, such as on-screen buttons that a finger can press rather than a stylus. I can still see an argument against stand alone applications vs. web pages…..uh gotta go…take care