Google Moves Toward Adobe Flex @ OPEN WEB

Google Moves Toward Adobe Flex

Why is this new Google Web site important? You may not know, but for many years Google was a three-language company: Java, C++ and Python. The fact that they are starting to use Flex is important not because it's more proof that Flex is a solid technology for RIA, yada, yada, yada. What's really important - this can serve as a signal for a myriad of small software vendors that will now be inspired to work on what will possibly become the next killer application in Flex and maybe, just maybe, will get these small vendors on Google's radar.

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larry w. virden commented on the 1 Nov 2007

Well, I followed the steps you described to get to searchmash, then to leonard cohen, then to the videos. I then clicked on the video in question. What I saw next was the messaage "we're sorry, the video is no longer available". In fact, I've been seeing that all day from various sites. Perhaps youtube is undergoing difficulties?

Tony Fendall commented on the 30 Oct 2007

I don't understand...

The street view components of good earth and google moon are done in flash, and that's just one example of things that have done which fall outside the three technologies you listed. We also know that google uses javascript regularly for things like gmail and google docs.

It is a good thing that google is using flex, but this is not the dramatic u-turn that some people seem to see it as.

Jeff commented on the 29 Oct 2007

I can envision the Google Reader being rewritten in Flex.

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