SWX: Roadmap for the next release
It's only been a little over a day or so since the 0.1.9 release of SWX, which brought a number of major changes, and I'm already looking forward to the 0.2.0 release.
The 0.2 release will also have some major changes, one of which I just decided upon a few moments ago, at the spirited urging of Bob Ippolito (thanks, Bob). Here is a heads up on the upcoming priorities in 0.2.0 and 0.2.1:
- Cross-domain support. I'm battling with the security sandbox currently, living the allowDomain() fantasy from hell, and hoping that the light at the end of the tunnel is not a freight train! :)
- 3-step developer bundles that make getting started with SWX as easy as A, B, C.
- Continued focus on making the whole experience of getting started with and using SWX easier. This includes the full experience from the moment you arrive on the web site to the moment you are up and running with the SWX samples on your own computer.
- A single format, JSON, will be used to serialize data going *from* Flash to the SWX gateway. This will replace PHON. I still love the idea of PHON but Bob's made a strong argument about the advantages of using JSON and I agree with him. As nonsensical as it sounds to parse JavaScript in PHP, and as cool as it is to talk to PHP in PHP and Python in Python, we shouldn't think of it that way. JSON is a lightweight data format that is a de facto standard and has good library support on various platforms. It just also happens to be a subset of JavaScript. Having multiple different formats for each back-end would have complicated things. In reality, this will affect you, the Flash developer, very little as it is all very much part of the inner workings, but it will affect the API very slightly.
It's my aim to have these ready in time for my talk at Flash in the Can. Wish me luck! :)
Comments
by Michiel van der Ros on 2007-04-12 09:58:26
by Peek at upcoming release and a note for linux users at SWX: SWF Data Exchange Format on 2007-04-12 13:52:58
by aral on 2007-04-12 13:55:04