Comments on: PureMVC – A Multiplatform Framework http://www.flashuser.net/general/puremvc-a-multiplatform-framework.html Useful and daily inspiration resources from web design, css, wordpress, graphic design, photography, illustrator, photoshop. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:38:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian http://www.flashuser.net/general/puremvc-a-multiplatform-framework.html/comment-page-1#comment-761 Brian Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:17:05 +0000 http://www.flashuser.net/?p=1969#comment-761 It's a great framework !! And yes the foresight paid off in a major way ! It’s a great framework !! And yes the foresight paid off in a major way !

]]> By: Cliff Hall http://www.flashuser.net/general/puremvc-a-multiplatform-framework.html/comment-page-1#comment-648 Cliff Hall Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:54:34 +0000 http://www.flashuser.net/?p=1969#comment-648 "But the fact that it’s trying to be general and reach different platforms can be an issue. I am just saying that the generalization of this framework can make it mediocre in some way." What do you expect an MVC framework to do for you that's not mediocre? It's like separating your laundry. If you don't do it, you get fuzzy bedsheets because you washed your towels with them. Or your colors run on your whites. But you still have to do laundry (unless you have a butler), so you separate. It is the same with MVC. PureMVC was created specifically for use with Flex and AIR. That's what I do, and I needed a good framework to use in my everyday job. It's just that before creating it, I decided to use only proven design patterns and the most common language features, so that it would conceivably be portable to Tamarin (the supposed next version of JavaScript that was supposed to be ActionScript-like). I reasoned that Tamarin users would need a framework, too. Well Tamarin never happened, but lots of other people found that they could easily port PureMVC to their platforms/languages. So, what do you know, a tiny amount of foresight paid off. But I didn't intentionally try to make it so vanilla it would port to every platform in the universe. It just turns out that doing MVC separation with the handful of patterns I used is something so simple you can do it anywhere. -=Cliff> “But the fact that it’s trying to be general and reach different platforms can be an issue. I am just saying that the generalization of this framework can make it mediocre in some way.”

What do you expect an MVC framework to do for you that’s not mediocre?

It’s like separating your laundry. If you don’t do it, you get fuzzy bedsheets because you washed your towels with them. Or your colors run on your whites. But you still have to do laundry (unless you have a butler), so you separate. It is the same with MVC.

PureMVC was created specifically for use with Flex and AIR. That’s what I do, and I needed a good framework to use in my everyday job.

It’s just that before creating it, I decided to use only proven design patterns and the most common language features, so that it would conceivably be portable to Tamarin (the supposed next version of JavaScript that was supposed to be ActionScript-like). I reasoned that Tamarin users would need a framework, too.

Well Tamarin never happened, but lots of other people found that they could easily port PureMVC to their platforms/languages.

So, what do you know, a tiny amount of foresight paid off. But I didn’t intentionally try to make it so vanilla it would port to every platform in the universe. It just turns out that doing MVC separation with the handful of patterns I used is something so simple you can do it anywhere.

-=Cliff>

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