In my mind, the big advantage of Central is the occasionally connected
computing aspect, that is the ability to synchronisation data the next
time you are able to reliably connect to a network. If you read the
Flash Platform Overview paper, it indicates that Flex 2 will provider
better support for
I'd be curious to see how many people actually have central - my general
thoughts are that the only real people that use it are flash developers :) I
don't know of anyone that uses it other than some developers that installed
it once and had a look.
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'Apollo' was mentioned at MAX. While the current incantation of Central may
be a flop in the general sense of the word, the overall idea of Flash on the
Desktop [OCC, quick install c] diffidently isn't dead.
Stay tuned...?
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At 8:35 PM -0400 10/27/05, Count Schemula wrote:
I don't think normal people have any clue that Central exists.
Macromedia creates a lot of things and then lets them die.
Remember the whole shockwave game player? Or even shockwave? Or Director
MUS?
Seriously! It's kind of amazingly
Central was a developer release. Sometime to innovate you have to put
something out there and learn from it. There were some invaluable lessons
learned from Central:
1. Player performance needed to improve an order of magnitude.
2. FileIO was important.
3. Binary data manipulation was important.
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