That is a very interesting diagram showing a way forward for Flex users.
I have only used ActionScript Projects, rather than Flex, and have
mainly been concerned not to lose a way to deliver my SWFs.
I can see myself developing in JavaScript but not wishing to go back
near the beginning with programming, and liking the way SWCs are used in
my projects, I rather want things to stay as they are.
On that subject, will later FlashPlayers have separate Virtual Machines
for: (1) interpreting AIR (legacy) and (2) Browser (legacy) as well as
(3) new code which is CPU dependent machine code?
I understand that PDFs have their own built-in player and, according to
Dave Merchant on Acrobat.com, we don't know what tje future of that
might be. It would be a great shame to lose the PDF SWFs since if they
worked properly with the PDF container it would be the best way to
deliver high quality Text/Photo/Video/SWF combinations. At the moment
the SWFs and PDF container don't thoroughly know about each other. Have
I got that right about the PDF SWF player?
Forgive my delayed posts but I have been teaching three days a week and
busy winding up the apprentices assessments for the end of term.
It's a great thing that Adobe have continued to keep you involved with
the project.
John
On 21/12/2012 21:43, Alex Harui wrote:
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives
Actually, I’m not just hanging in there, I’m still paid by Adobe to
spend all of my time on Flex. My teammates are now folks like you who
have spare cycles to contribute to the future of Flex. Apache Flex
just “graduated” to being an official “top-level” project at Apache
which means it will be around for as long as folks want it to. Adobe
has no say in its future.
Working in Apache has been interesting because these new contributors
have lots of diverse knowledge and experience. The Apache Flex
community is now investigating was to leverage a cross-compiler that
can take in ActionScript and spit out JavaScript and allow you to use
a Flex-like workflow to create RIAs that run without Flash.
My thoughts on that topic and prototype is written up here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Alex%27s+FlexJS+Prototype
On 12/21/12 12:50 PM, "John McCormack" <j...@easypeasy.co.uk> wrote:
