Central was a developer release. Sometime to innovate you have to put something out there and learn from it. There were some invaluable lessons learned from Central:
1. Player performance needed to improve an order of magnitude. 2. FileIO was important. 3. Binary data manipulation was important. 4. Flash Platform needed better tools for application development. Flash on the desktop is far from dead, actually it is the next beachhead for the Flash Platform. Central was a learning experience that will allow MM to make a future product 20X better. Here is what I would like to see in the future desktop flash player: 1. Hardware acceleration of graphic rendering. 2. Window transparency and shape control. 3. Full OSX and Windows integration, icons, tray, dock. 4. Once click app installation (What Central got right!) 5. APIs for creating child windows as needed. 6. Integration with joysticks and other input devices for games. 7. Developer branding, not MM branding. 8. Performance 10x faster than web players. 9. Resolution scaling similar to http://www.swfxxl.com/ 10. Unique ID specific to Desktop User for COLA Licensing BTW, VB2.0 was a flop. It took another release to get thing right. My 2 cents, Ted Patrick > Central has been out for a while, and is it now fair to say its just a > big flop? Just seems like it to me - not much has been added/developed > for it, some bugs in it, etc. Is MM still trying to push it as a real > platform for the net-connected desktop at the same time they push > Flex/Flash for the actual web? > > I've also always wondered what real advantage Central has over the > general web 1.0 and web 2.0? The apps developed for it that I have seen > could also have been done with Flex/Flash since that can also be a > "united environment". Plus, it's a download, which is a major > disadvantage, when you can get the same use out of Web pages already out > there. So really, Central seems just like a glorified browser, where > instead of surfing directly to HTML and Flash pages, you have to install > Central applications which connect to internet based data. Has anyone > else thought the same thing or am I not understanding something about > Central? > > Personally, the best thing about Central I have found is certainly not > the Movie Finder (I can do that with MovieFone.com) but a simple little > game addicting someone developed for it called "Clicks" - but then, that > could also have been in a Web page. I guess I can play Clicks when not > on the net though, big advantage of Central I guess! > > Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com > > > > > > > > NOTICE: > This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain > privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, > please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other > use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 0.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/146 - Release Date: 10/21/2005 > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 0.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/146 - Release Date: 10/21/2005 _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
