Online/Offline Application Take Two (Part 2)
In the first part of this series I explained my overall plan of action to develop an online/offline application using my existing CF application. This part will detail how I built the UI using Flex/Air 2.0. Notice I'm using Air 2.0 which at the time of this writing is still in Beta. The reason for this will become more obvious later (in part 3), but suffice to say I needed to leverage the new NativeProcess introduced in Air 2.0.
At first when planning this part I thought it would be quite difficult to roll my own "browser" to interface with my existing CF application, however this has proven to be a simple task using the HTML component in Flex. Of course there are quirks with the way some html/css/javascript is rendered and interpreted, but for the most part it works out-of-the box.