I’d like to discuss a bit of my experience tinkering with re-skinning portions of our Content Management System, i3SiteTools,using Flex 2. The tools that make up the ‘CMS’ (sometimes referred to as the ‘SMS’ for Site Management System) have been built and tweeked over the past 10 years by several developers. A lot of thought and energy went in to making the display forms be able to do tricks like searching and column sorting. Generally, this was accomplished by harnessing the power of the backend with SQL and self-posting pages. A lot of conditional logic was incorporated into the ColdFusion pages to build and manage the display.

The latest Windows update which rolled out on April 11^th affects every web site that uses any type of Active X control. Microsoft modified Internet Explorer so that now in order for a user to interact with embedded objects (like Flash) she must first click on the object to activate it.