Dok se mi zagrijavamo sa Flexom 3 i spremamo ispucati prve cool RIA unforgiven & unseen aplikacije, Adobe lagano pirja vatru za Flex 4 kodnog imena Gumbo.
Prilicno dobro su skuzili na cemu trebaju poraditi, tako da je kod evolucije u Gumbo naglasak stavljen na omogucavanje suvislog linkanja dizajnerskog i programerskog posla, poboljsavanje performansi kompajlera (jeeeee!) i lagana poboljsanja u samom frameworku.
Jako fora novost je uvodjenje FXG tagova kojima se definira vizualni izgled komponenti - recimo da je to CSS za MXML. Vrlo zgodno buduci da se s tim moze prilicno rasteretiti glavni MXML kod koji ce od sada sadrzavati samo funkcionalnost, a FXG-om se mogu baviti i dizajneri bez da imaju mogucnost nesto sprckati u kodu. Naravno sve je to poslozeno tako da se u pricu elegantno usulja i famozni Thermo koji evo-samo-sto-nije-tu.
Beta se ocekuje krajem 2008, a prvi release u drugoj polovici 2009. Lijepa stvar prelaska flexa u Open Source je i ta sto se nightly builds vec sada mogu skinuti za igranje.

Ok, dynamic content inside Flash (goes for Flex too) is finally fully searchable by Google and Yahoo!
Adobe announced news today, and there’s a post on Google blog too.
Adobe’s recent opening of SWF specs definitely boosted this process and now they offered additional tools for Google and Yahoo! to help them browse SWFs more efficiently.
However there are still some serious limitations at the moment:
- Google doesn’t index flash content embedded using JavaScript, so all those sites using SWFObject scripts are still out of focus
- Dynamically loaded xml or html files are not seen as part of SWF but as separate content
This is definitely a good start (well, we waited way to long on this but better ever than never ) and we want more!