Thank you.
That's interesting and very helpful.
One does wonder if a separate translation tool would do the job
faithfully, and so creates doubt.
For someone that wants to use SWFs in PDFs to deliver educational
content that is fully interactive, what workflow would you suggest using
for the next three to five years?
John
On 17/12/2012 16:31, Alex Harui wrote:
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives
Adobe has no plans that I know of to get ActionScript to work with
HTML5 in the same way that Google is proposing Dart as an alternative
to JavaScript.
The Apache Flex project is working on a compiler that will translate
ActionScript to JavaScript. In addition, the link I posted proposes a
component framework that would enable you to build or prototype your
app in Flash using FlashBuilder and ActionScript and then run a
separate tool outside of FlashBuilder to translate it to JavaScript
where it will run and leverage HTML or HTML5 components.
Alternatively, the same ActionScript to JavaScript compiler would let
you write the script portions of your website as ActionScript using
FlashBuilder and have separate HTML files, then use the same separate
tool outside of FlashBuilder to translate the ActionScript to
JavaScript. And maybe variations will be created that can output to
various JS frameworks.
At this time, there are no plans to change FlashBuilder to integrate
the translation workflow. Adobe’s focus for FlashBuilder is on
building ActionScript gaming and premium video projects that run on
the Flash player. I suppose if the JS workflow became wildly popular
and Adobe could see a revenue stream by supporting such a workflow
things might change, but I wouldn’t count on it. There is a better
chance that someone in Apache Flex will start creating plugins for
Eclipse to support the workflow or one of the other tool vendors will
provide an integrated workflow.
The future of ActionScript 3 in Rich Internet Applications (as opposed
to ActionScript “Next” as mentioned in the Flash roadmap) is actually
being given more attention by Apache Flex than Adobe. If you want to
continue to use ActionScript 3 to develop RIAs, I would encourage you
to get involved with the Apache Flex project.
On 12/17/12 2:16 AM, "John McCormack" <j...@easypeasy.co.uk> wrote:
On 17/12/2012 05:12, Alex Harui wrote:
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives Adobe has spent the
year donating the Flex SDK and Falcon compilers to the Apache
Software Foundation. While Adobe has a small set of people
contributing to Flex in Apache and a team that shipped Flash
Builder 4.7 and is working on subsequent Flash Builder
release, Adobe is not leading the development of Flex and has
not been for a full year. The future of Flex is in the hands
of the Apache Flex community. This document should have made
Adobe’s plans clear:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html
I followed this link through to
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html
Under Flash Player "Next" this says...
" and provide a foundation on which Flash can move forward over
the next decade."
Does this imply ActionScript working collaboratively with HTML5
or is it an alternative to HTML5?
I am asking because I am hoping Flash Builder will continue to
offer me a way forward (AS3+HTML5).
John
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Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
