> So anyway I think that away3d's future is very solid. : ) All these discussions around the IPad make me think about those boxes that children must fill with their ideas of the future. At the time they fill them, their ideas make totally sens, mostly because they're influenced by present factors. Decades later they turn out to be more funny than realistic... I've seen many projects come and die over the years. Not even talking about flash 3D. The reason why I do think Away has at least few bright years ahead is not only based on the technological aspect of the story but because of the "chemical" aspect of the project: Its open source, no big shot wallet can tell us what to do or not. The project is way beyond the critical mass of users required for an healthy project and the team composing it is nothing but hard working creative people really enjoying what they are doing just for the pleasure of doing it. This is priceless and quite a good garanty for continuity to me.
With the rize of mobile devices, cs5 coming out soon, android etc.. we will enlarge our horizon. And if one day we feel we need some kind of html5 tag thing <Away3d> or some technology not even there yet. Well, we'll just do that! Nothing last forever and changes are unevitable. So for my part, I just keep doing what I'm doing and I'll probably laugh later on when I'll reopen my "future box " :)) Fabrice On Feb 5, 2010, at 11:25 PM, Cauê Waneck wrote: > Well, first of all, I think that Apple's marketing strategies are becoming > more and more frivolous, and Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) on a > computer is something we just can't ignore... This is a very aggressive > posture, and I hope people will realize that. > > Anyway, since there is really no substitute for Flash - js is many times > slower than flash, and how many years is IE supposed to support the so-called > HTML5? I think we have many years ahead. > > If there were a shift in the market, it might be interesting Away3D were > ported to HaXe, since its already designed to publish to multiple programming > languages. > > I guess I mean that I use Flash today because its the best tool for the job, > and I believe it to be the best tool for the job tomorrow as well. As for the > day after tomorrow? We'll have to see :) > > About that, there is already a totally functional Away3dLite port to haXe, > and I have plans to extend it to support js, cpp and neko as well. So anyway > I think that away3d's future is very solid. : ) > > best, > Cauê
