HTML in Flash
Now that I’ve had a little time to play with Apollo (mostly lovin’ it) I can’t shake the idea of how great it would be to have proper (x)HTML support within the Flash Player.
You know, Flash is really, really bad at laying things out (as in layout 
). Basically you have to define and code a heck of a lot to create something really simple. Flex does this a lot better, of course, but having spend the last 2 months with it I must say that I really do miss the elegance and simplicity of xHTML & CSS.
Flex does a good job at laying out and controlling UI controls, but a really lousy job at making it easy to display structural information. And that’s the beauty of Apollo. It’s inbuilt browser. Whenever you need to display a ton (or even less) of information, there’s no better option than HTML. So in effect you get the best of both world, a very powerful application framework and a great way to display structured information.
So I wonder, what would be the size of a stripped down version of the Web-Kit be? Small enough for FP10? Forget JavaScript, XML support, AJAX. Just implement a decent subset (or all of the specification) of XHTML and CSS2 (ahh, if not 3) into the Flash Player and I will be your friend for life.
You’ve already done it for Apollo, all you now need to do is remove two thirds of the code you have in there
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Proper HTML and CSS support in Flash is certainly very high on my wish list for any future release of the Player. As it stands, it’s very difficult to create a proper CMS with a Flash frontend without jumping through a multitude of hoops.
FlashTextEditor allows CSS text editing and outputs clean CSS formatted HTML.
You may be interested to read this blog entry:
“How Has HTML in Flex Worked For You?”
http://www.deitte.com/archives/2007/03/how_has_html_in.htm
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