Yeah I thought about that too, it's kind of weird because there's this just-released talk from MAX on adobe.tv about the Spoon project and how much mutual trust was required and how it took a year of hard work to get where they are, where Adobe will trust them to contribute patches and stuff; now all those people must feel a bit stupid for doing all that work to convince Adobe, since someone just decided to hand over the entire responsibility for the code anyway. But maybe it will work out because now the Spoon project has an organised structure ready to go, which is handy.
Reading into these things, it seems that some higher-level people made business decisions which by necessity happen suddenly, and everyone else in the company found out just as suddenly as us. The article you mention probably genuinely was the plan at the time it was written. There is quite a strong feeling that HTML5 simply can't replace Flex yet; and as for future it is pure conjecture, no-one knows. Who knows, maybe the community will do a better job with the Flex codebase than Adobe themselves did? If you watch the Spoon talk you read about the incredible problems faced by contributors who contributed patches but no-one at Adobe ever reviewed them or contributed them - now this might all change for the better. Let's see what happens... Here's the link by the way: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2011-develop/open-source-flex-what-the-spoon-project-means-to-you/ Oh - I just noticed a notice on the Spoon site about it: http://www.spoon.as/2011/adobe-announces-intention-to-donate-flex-sdk/. So apparently they are excited - fair enough they wanted to be able to actually commit their changes and now they will be able to. I would encourage everyone to stay calm and see how things develop over the next six months. By then we'll start to see whether the Apache project takes off. I think there's a distinct possibility that Adobe will try and translate Flash Builder into "Flash or HTML5 Builder" (with a classier name of course) - after all you've got a lot of Flex-skilled people that would immediately buy it. John 2011/11/15 Farid Shahlavi <fshahl...@gmail.com> > ** > > > This is basically all the rats abandoning ship in my opinion, here's an > article from just over a month ago from Adobe that completely contradicts > what they announced last Friday, how is this possible that they didn't have > foresight to see this coming,?! > > http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/08/flex-where-were-headed.html > > Farid > > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Haykel BEN JEMIA <hayke...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> ** >> >> >> Because today HTML5 is not yet ready and will not be ready for the next >> 5-10 years in my opinion. There are still many things you can only do in >> Flash and many other that are very difficult to do with HTML5. In my >> opinion HTML5 is a hype anyway, some new tags, css and js elements and >> functions. Browser-compatibility, layout, animation, video and much more is >> handled very easily with Flex/Flash. Should we replace the strong-typed and >> compiled AS 3 language with JavaScript? I'm working on a video chat >> application that uses FMS and P2P multicats, can you do that with HTML?? >> >> Personnally I don't think Flex is dead, the Flex community will continue >> to implement it and there will be some companies offering support for it. >> >> Only when Adobe stops the development of the Flash player for the Desktop >> I will say that Flash is really dead. >> >> Let's help the Spoon project and make Flex better than ever! >> >> Haykel Ben Jemia >> >> Allmas >> Web & RIA Development >> http://www.allmas-tn.com >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Rick Schmitty <flexc...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> ** >>> >>> >>> I've been a Flex developer since it's first beta however many years ago. >>> Today I just saw this response from Adobe: >>> http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/11/your-questions-about-flex.html >>> >>> >>> *Does Adobe recommend we use Flex or HTML5 for our enterprise >>>> application development? >>>> *In the long-term, *we believe HTML5 will be the best technology for >>>> enterprise application development*. We also know that, currently, >>>> Flex has clear benefits for large-scale client projects typically >>>> associated with desktop application profiles. >>>> Given our experiences innovating on Flex, we are extremely well >>>> positioned to positively contribute to the advancement of HTML5 >>>> development, starting with mobile applications. In fact, *many of the >>>> engineers and product managers who worked on Flex SDK will be moving to >>>> work on our HTML efforts*. We will continue making significant >>>> contributions to open web technologies like WebKit & jQuery, advance the >>>> development of PhoneGap and create new tools that solve the challenges >>>> developers face when building applications with HTML5. >>> >>> >>> Emphasis mine. If anyone has followed any game >>> or application development where 'many members' of the team are switched to >>> the next greatest thing, that normally means there are >>> few maintenance developers for the existing product and not much new >>> innovation to it. The company wants its best and brightest working on its >>> future, not supporting its past. >>> >>> Combine that with the facts that Adobe bought PhoneGap and released Edge >>> preview. It's not hard to put all these facts together and see that long >>> term they want an IDE & framework for app development in HTML5. Perhaps >>> Flex5 will be an HTML5 version of Flex as they start putting together html5 >>> components >>> >>> >>> Outside of "having to support IE6" why would you choose to start a >>> project in Flex today? >>> >>> >> > >
