>> My sense is that Adobe has realized that it close to impossible to port >> Flash to the staggering proliferation of tablets, smart phones, and other >> devices.
That's why they have AIR. The move away from Flash by Adobe may (and I'm really guessing here) have to do with Windows 8 and its metro style. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_%28design_language%29 In Windows 8 the start screen (desktop) will look like a smart device (with apps). Those are run in a slim (lightweight) browser that does not support plugins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_8_Developer_Preview_Start_Screen.png When you head off on the internet from one of those apps, you'll be using the metro browser to surf the internet, meaning: no plugins. If you have the time, check out the Win8 videos: http://www.buildwindows.com/ Not sure which one has the browser explanation in it.. sorry. I hope Adobe doesn't give up on FlashBuilder (and AS3/MXML) and hope that moving forward we'll be able to use the same tool to create JS/HTML apps, much like you can do now with Java, GWT and SmartGWT. Google Web Toolkit: http://code.google.com/intl/nl/webtoolkit/ SmartGWT: http://code.google.com/p/smartgwt/ Samples: http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/showcase/ (puts flex component framework to shame) If Adobe came up with something like that, I'd be all over it. regards, Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Brutzman" <bill.brutz...@scottynow.com> To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 7:16 PM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] You are the product My sense is that Adobe has realized that it close to impossible to port Flash to the staggering proliferation of tablets, smart phones, and other devices. Does anybody expect Flash to run on a Kindle or a Nook? In my little world of fantasy. I wish I knew how Flash worked. Perhaps a standards-based Flash lite could be cranked into HTML-6. --Bill
