Also, given that most other phone/tablet platforms WILL be supporting Flash, I'd say Dawn might go back to management and point out they're talking about rebuilding something JUST because the iPad won't support Flash. It may be possible to convince them that this might be a knee-jerk reaction.
Brian On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Dave Watts <dwa...@figleaf.com> wrote: > > > It was a dig at Brad's attempt to derail the discussion into the tired > > old Adobe vs Apple debate that everyone seems to enjoy having at the > > moment. In other words, it was intended to highlight that Brad's > > sarcastic comment wasn't useful to the original poster... > > Well, the only problem with that is that his comment was at least > tangentially useful - it describes the current state of affairs. HTML > 5 is not currently a reliable substitute for Flash in many ways, and > won't be for some time to come. I just read today that MS is dragging > their feet on adding CANVAS to IE 9! > > > http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/05/microsoft_ie9_and_canvasn/ > > And without that standard in place, we can't realistically expect > Adobe to build toolsets to let Flash developers output to non-Flash > formats, as some people have suggested. So, the original poster is on > her own, and has to rewrite the functionality from scratch. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > http://training.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on > GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333359 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
