Re: [flexcoders] RE: Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Guy Morton
On 04/05/2010, at 9:39 AM, Oleg Sivokon wrote: > > That's again a newspaper trick, it may from the first sight seem like you are > making a point, however... You say that HTML5 is a good perspective, I say > it's a step back, you may not agree, but your personal belief doesn't make it > a fact,

Re: [flexcoders] RE: Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Guy Morton
I've done the html, css, js thing too - started developing for the web in 1994, so I've been around the block once or twice too. If you know everything about web technologies, past, present and future perhaps you should be heading up Apple. :-) And before you issue silly challenges to people yo

Re: [flexcoders] RE: Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread dorkie dork from dorktown
Guy, There is no way in hell I'm going to write an application in HTML5 and Javascript. With Flash I can compile my code to a single swf. I've done the HTML, JS, CSS thing dude. I've done both and there is no benefit to letting everyone in the world see my code (no exaggerating here) or creating p

Re: [flexcoders] RE: Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Oleg Sivokon
That's again a newspaper trick, it may from the first sight seem like you are making a point, however... You say that HTML5 is a good perspective, I say it's a step back, you may not agree, but your personal belief doesn't make it a fact, it is still a hypothesis, not an axiom. Did you really have

Re: [flexcoders] RE: Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Guy Morton
Adobe is a ruthless competitor too; let's not forget that they shafted SVG as soon as they bought Flash. Personally, I find that harder to forgive, because it was about entrenching a commercial advantage based on proprietary technology owned by Adobe and blowing off a growing standard that comp

[flexcoders] RE: Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Battershall, Jeff
Let's not get carried away here - no way is Apple going to stop supporting Flash on the Mac. That's one of those "sky is falling' rumors that always start up when something like this happens. The recent events are concerning as they potentially affect our mutual livelihoods, but really, there's