Re: Flash Platform Whitepaper

2013-01-31 Thread sébastien Paturel
Good thing, we did not start to rewrite flex in AS4 :) At least it proves that Adobe can change its strategic moves very quickly and 180° is always possible, even if you can't count on it of course. Does this white paper mean that theres no plan to put Air on windows 8, even in captive

Re: Flash Platform Whitepaper

2013-01-31 Thread Harbs
The flip-side is that it might affect Win 8 (or rather Metro) success… That news is pretty disappointing. Of course this makes the HTML work all the more relevant… ;) Harbs On Jan 31, 2013, at 4:23 PM, sébastien Paturel wrote: Good thing, we did not start to rewrite flex in AS4 :) At least

RE: Flash Platform Whitepaper

2013-01-31 Thread Kessler CTR Mark J
: Nicholas Kwiatkowski [mailto:nicho...@spoon.as] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:34 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Flash Platform Whitepaper According to the whitepaper, there is no plans to support AIR on Windows 8 RT (ARM based processors, or tablets). Windows 8 (Intel based processors

RE: Flash Platform Whitepaper

2013-01-31 Thread Mike Chambers
AIR is supported on Windows 8 desktop on x86 machines. mike chambers m...@adobe.com -Original Message- From: Kessler CTR Mark J [mailto:mark.kessler@usmc.mil] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:59 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: RE: Flash Platform Whitepaper Actually I think

Re: Flash Platform Whitepaper

2013-01-31 Thread Alex Gatica
...@adobe.com -Original Message- From: Kessler CTR Mark J [mailto:mark.kessler@usmc.mil] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:59 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: RE: Flash Platform Whitepaper Actually I think they said they will have AIR on Win8, but they are not making anything

RE: Flash Platform Whitepaper

2013-01-31 Thread Mike Chambers
Feel free to email me directly : m...@adobe.com -Original Message- From: Alex Gatica [mailto:alex.gatica...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:58 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Flash Platform Whitepaper i think i dindnt make myself clear, i was wondering if we could

Re: Flash Platform Whitepaper

2013-01-30 Thread Nicholas Kwiatkowski
Yeah... They tried that once already. They submitted to have a large portion of AS3 become the next ECMAScript -- and after a bit of a tizzy, they were rejected. -Nick On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Avi Kessner akess...@gmail.com wrote: Read to me like they are working on making AS3 the new

Re: Flash Platform Whitepaper

2013-01-29 Thread Lee Burrows
Thats the way i'm reading it - dumb but predictable On 30/01/2013 00:39, Mark Fuqua wrote: In reading over the latest version, it seems like Adobe is saying no Air for Windows 8 tablets/phones...is that a correct reading? Seems like a dumb move for both Microsoft and Adobe. Mark

Re: Flash Platform Whitepaper

2013-01-29 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/29/13 4:33 PM, Igor Costa igorco...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there Alex In some points Alex we will be affected, since if we still want to be relay only on flash player. We have to move on for Flex output for N platforms and stop depending only on one vendor. Is that what you mention

Re: Flash Platform Whitepaper

2013-01-29 Thread Tomislav Pokrajcic
That part of text is a bit fuzzy, but it doesn't sound positive at all about AIR on Win8 mobile. Also, no mention of Blackberry OS. Tomislav On 30.1.2013. 1:39, Mark Fuqua wrote: In reading over the latest version, it seems like Adobe is saying no Air for Windows 8 tablets/phones...is that a

Re: Flash Platform Whitepaper

2013-01-29 Thread Kevin Newman
I read the whole thing as Flash entering sunset mode. Basically, Adobe doesn't want to make their AIR package competitive, so they are throwing in the towel, while allowing Flash Player in the browser to coast to it's inevitable demise. That's my read anyway. Kevin N.

Re: Flash Platform Whitepaper

2013-01-29 Thread Kevin Newman
On 1/29/2013 8:14 PM, Tianzhen Lin wrote: I hope Adobe, with its new focus on gaming, would not repeat its misstep and make some waves into console market. The right play in my opinion would be to do exactly that - focus on gaming - then expand out to other types of apps like they did when

Re: Flash Platform Whitepaper

2013-01-29 Thread Avi Kessner
Read to me like they are working on making AS3 the new Javascript. Just saying. :) brought to you by the letters A, V, and I and the number 47 On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Kevin Newman capta...@unfocus.com wrote: I read the whole thing as Flash entering sunset mode. Basically, Adobe