Re: OT: Adobe's New Anti Apple Ads

2010-05-17 Thread Brian Yennie
Exactly. As someone who has spent the last couple of years writing virtual worlds in Flash, I can say unequivocally that HTML 5 is nowhere near being able to duplicate that functionality. Not only is the feature set much smaller and browser support limited, but there are no tools behind it. And

Re: OT: Adobe's New Anti Apple Ads

2010-05-17 Thread Colin Holgate
On May 16, 2010, at 11:11 PM, Mark Swindell wrote: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/16/mefeedia_html5_survey/ People are still getting confused about what Flash is used for, and think that if more sites have an html5 video player option, that the overall use of Flash has gone down. T

Re: OT: Adobe's New Anti Apple Ads

2010-05-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: Steve may not realise it, but he might have just woken the sleeping giant - the hoards of twisted individuals who gain pleasure from writing malicious code. The iPhone has already been the target of at least two, maybe three exploits. All computing devices are subject to suc

Re: OT: Adobe's New Anti Apple Ads

2010-05-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 17/05/2010 10:13, Kay C Lan wrote: To me, this is competition and competition is good, very good. Yes, it probably is nothing more than the grinding together of competitive forces; but, Unfortunately: 1. A lot of small companies and their dedicated clients seem to be getting groun

Re: OT: Adobe's New Anti Apple Ads

2010-05-17 Thread Kay C Lan
Alajandro, I'm with you. My perception is that Steve is now feverishly flogging the Apple employees to even higher standards to ensure that 'he is right'. Whilst over at Adobe they a extremely busy scheming how to get Flash in to all those disgruntle ex-iPad/Phone developers hands and onto every

RE: OT: Adobe's New Anti Apple Ads

2010-05-16 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/16/mefeedia_html5_survey/ > > Non-Flash video surges onto the web > Maniacal chuckling at One Infinite Loop > Steve Jobs is one-quarter of the way to victory in his > increasingly heated take-no-prisoners assault on Adobe Flash. > > According to a survey co

Re: OT: Adobe's New Anti Apple Ads

2010-05-16 Thread Mark Swindell
After Apple reduces Flash to a reasonably weak state, perhaps they'll have a change of heart toward "the rest of us" and lighten up some. Just a (probably naive) thought. -Mark http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/16/mefeedia_html5_survey/ Non-Flash video surges onto the web Maniacal chucklin

Re: OT: Adobe's New Anti Apple Ads

2010-05-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: Actually, i hope that this feud between Apple and Adobe could bring more attention from Adobe to Linux and Mobile Platforms. I found this take on things interesting: Ubuntu wants Adobe, even if Apple doesn't I recently suggested that, given Apple and Adobe's grow

Re: OT: Adobe's New Anti Apple Ads

2010-05-16 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Actually, i hope that this feud between Apple and Adobe could bring more attention from Adobe to Linux and Mobile Platforms. If this is the final result of all this discussion, then everybody should said "Thanks Steve!" :D -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.na

Re: OT: Adobe's New Anti Apple Ads

2010-05-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 14/05/2010 17:02, David Bovill wrote: Just for fun :) - Adobe starts Anti Apple Ad campaign - Adobe's reply to Mr Jobs - Adobe on "openness"

Re: OT: Adobe's New Anti Apple Ads

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: ... - And Microsoft don't like Flash either? Portions of that statement have been used by many Apple advocates as "confirming" that Microsoft feels the same about Flash as Steve Jobs does.

OT: Adobe's New Anti Apple Ads

2010-05-14 Thread David Bovill
Just for fun :) - Adobe starts Anti Apple Ad campaign - Adobe's reply to Mr Jobs - Adobe on "openness" - And Microsoft don't