flex

How come? As I am currently evaluating a Digital Signage project which makes heavy usage of Flash movies I decided to re-evaluate this technology. Until now I was rather reticent for the following reasons: it is proprietary and does not have any free development tools and (most disturbing) it requires Windows. However today while browsing the Adobe site I found out some rather cool things. There is a product called flex which allows to freely develop flash applications on Linux....

Updated 18-oct-2008: There is a great solution in Flex which I have used for this and this projects. Conclusion The problem of representing a graph on the web is not a solved one. On the desktop application side there are lots of tools which can handle large graphs with nice visualization but on a web page the choices are limited. For the given problem of representing a set of nodes connected through lines in order to illustrate the elements of an application I have tried the following:...