More Flex : Hero information comes out

Deepa has furnished us with some more Hero related snippets, and they make some interesting reading.

Deepa's posting

The first spec of the Spark Datagrid makes an appearance, which as suspected, was closer to the Halo Datagrid rather than the AdvancedDataGrid. *makes sign to ward off evil*

There's some good reading in the rest of the spec's that have been posted up to the Open SDK site. The size report looks like it might be useful pre-production, and the RSL Enhancements is worth a read just to get more information on how the Flash Player handles loading of RSLs generally.

Other than this, we still need to wait to get a proper nightly build. Deepa's implication is that the impetus for this was on the Player team rather than Flex SDK team to get their stuff done (or maybe I'm reading too much into it ;) ) as Hero is closely tied to the new player features.

Lastly, it looks like Hero is semi-officially Flex 4.5 rather than 5. Rumours as to what will be in 5.0 starting in 3... 2... 1...

Bye Bye Slider, Hello Hero!

So Slider, the mobile version of the Flex framework is dead.

Instead, we are getting Hero, the code name for the new Flex framework. No word as yet whether this is a point release or Flex 5...

Deepa threw a whole load of links into her blog post about it. Most pertinent being...

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Hero
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/mobile/faq.html

Most interesting part of this is finally a major update to the Datagrid! Anyone who's been kicking around from Flex will remember the last go at updating the Datagrid. The horrid AdvancedDataGrid which, and lets be fair to it here, was barely usable...

Once the news gets out in a proper way, I'd imagine the SDK team will be inundated with kitchen sink requests for a new Datagrid.

Which will we get from the Spark Datagrid... A decent replacement or ADG 2.0?