Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Flash future

2013-05-10 Thread John McCormack
Alex Harui at Adobe had these interesting things to say: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/165517 John ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Flash future

2013-05-10 Thread Kevin Newman
Gospel. Kevin N. On 5/9/13 11:18 AM, James Merrill wrote: From my perspective as a former Flash Developer at an Ad agency, I can't imagine us getting any more serious Flash work. These days we still use Flash for banner ads, but that's it. We've tried using Adobe Edge to do HTML5 banners, but

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Flash future

2013-05-10 Thread Kevin Newman
That seems to be mostly about ASNext/AVMNext which has since been canned, and the developers moved not back to AS3, but to webkit and other web tech. Kevin N. On 5/10/13 7:20 AM, John McCormack wrote: Alex Harui at Adobe had these interesting things to say:

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Air is dead (was Flash is dead)

2013-05-10 Thread Kevin Newman
The video performance in AIR on desktop is horrendous (no hardware accell - even through webkit), and on mobile it's only better if you go through stagevideo. For heavier lifting you'll need to use an ANE. Once you are down that road, why not just go all native, or look for a better

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Air is dead (was Flash is dead)

2013-05-10 Thread Henrik Andersson
They would offer the flash runtime as a linkable library if they were serious about being middleware. Have you seen the ANE stuff? Complete rubbish compared to real native classes! They don't trust people to actually have access to all the useful stuff the runtime has. And it's not a matter of