Jon,
Flash already has a stand alone player that comes with the IDE as well as the ability
to save any Flash movie you develop as a .exe. I don't think this stand alone concept
is necessarily new.
Whether you can have that exe go out and access live data is another issue. Maybe if
you coded a web service and made it available for access when the Flash app ran. But
if the user wasn't online or your service was down for some reason it'd make for a
poor Flash app.
tyler
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thu 2/7/2002 6:15 PM
To: CF-Talk
Cc:
Subject: Re: Jeremy Allaire interview on DevX
What I found extremely interesting was this sentence:
"Allaire says that the next-generation Flash player will be able to run
fully connected, intermittently connected, or as a standalone application
platform... "
Does this mean that Flash will have the ability to run outside of the
browser in the future? It sure seems to me like that's what he said. That is
pretty cool if so, current application GUI design really really sucks.
Visual Studio.net and Delphi both suffer from the little gray window
syndrome and are not cross platform. Java just sucks all around in GUI
design. The ability to design a GUI in Flash would get me on the Flash
ship...maybe.
Another very interesting thing...
"Finally, Allaire says the next-generation player "integrates rich media" by
displaying them in a single container rather than the multiple separate
applications commonly used today."
Does rich media mean video? I include video in my definition of rich media.
If so, then either Macromedia is going out with a video player, or Flash is
going have the ability to integrate other media players, like WMP. Hmmmm
sounds very cool by itself, and what it may imply depending on how they
allow integration.
Is their an approximate release date for Flash 6 yet?
jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Dowdell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:50 PM
Subject: fyi: Jeremy Allaire interview on DevX
> http://www.devx.com/free/hotlinks/2002/ednote020502/ednote020502.asp
>
> Although this is ostensibly about Flash, it really points out how we're
> trying to make it more efficient to develop with both ColdFusion and
Flash.
>
> jd
>
>
>
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