[JeremyHerrman]

Comic Chat has a special place in my heart because it inspired my first startup back in 2008, a comic creation web app called Chogger. The site grew to 30K monthly users, mostly K-12 educators who wanted to give their students a fun way to write stories.

The comic creator app itself was adobe flex (flash), actionscript 3.0 (like a typed version of javascript), and I remember spending so many hours getting the balloon tail dragging behavior just right...

one of the teachers made a video overview of how it worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKT70TBw1vw

[Aeolun]

Ack! It looks so… actionscript. Why does a UI look actionscript? I can’t even begin to imagine why it feels like that.

[JeremyHerrman]

Haha, yes flex apps definitely had a feel to them!

It's easy to criticize but remember, this was back in the days of supporting IE6 and XHR was still relatively new!

Flex's standard UI library was filled with bluish-gray gradients and verdana :)

Here's an article which has a screenshot with a bunch of controls: https://daverupert.com/2023/02/the-case-for-flex-application...

[whalesalad]

The verdana font and virtually every element is misaligned in some way

[chromakode]

For me it's the gradients and dark gray backgrounds.

[vollmond]

Aw, I miss Flex. It made so much sense to me.