INSPIRE is a online publication from the Adobe Experience Design Team which provides some interesting reading and good video content.
Someone’s done a great job of the skinning and styling of this Flex app! It looks beautiful, understated and professional.
On the downside it does feel a clunky here and there though and its still makes use of those nasty ‘scroll by renderer’ default Flex lists.
Is there a better alternative to those “scroll by renderer” lists? I know that they feel old skool, and not very “rich”, but they are nicely optimised for performance – especially for long lists with complex item renderers.
Yeah, build one
Here’s an example of ours. It does the same thing of re-using item renderers so it can handle long lists with complex item renderers.
This provides a much more user friendly interface and actually enables to user to be able to follow the content of the list.
There’s still some further features we could add in the future and some further optimizations, but it fills our requirements for the meantime (we’ve even sold it on a couple of times), so get away from the bad user experience default Flex list.
You can see an example here (and I’ve edited it a little giving the option to extend the scrollRect so you can see the item renderers outside of the usual visible area.
damn, that’s pretty sweet! And nice visualization behind the scenes with the “extend scrollRect” toggle. Arg, now I HAVE to build one for my current project.. more procrastination!