Ok, I took the Gumbo splash yesterday and, well, after messing around I’d have to say it’s just more XMLy (like more funn-y, or tast-y, or happ-y). The mxml is more like XML and so while it takes a few apps to get the hang of it, in the end I think it’s going to be better.
Getting my FlexBuilder 3.0.214193 to stop choosing FlashPlayer 9 was aggrivating to say the least (I’m talking about viewing your app in the FlashPlayer but not in the browser), I eventually did it and here’s a hint-  Changing the compiler argument didn’t do it, nor did setting the create HTML wrapper to use 10.0.0 …. I had to just download the stand alone 10.0 and then make sure my app could find it. argggghh.
I wish Adobe would get things further along before they really start talking it up. I hate waiting. I want the display view, I want CSS style hints…etc…
Well, the publishing world is going to be happy as clams as there will be good reason to write some new books covering Gumbo.
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