RE: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Nigel Hillier
http://www.ketv.com/money/firefox-blocks-flash-and-facebook-calls-for-its-de ath/34154590 If I uninstall flash from my dev machine to protect it . (which has all manner of passwords, confidential data etc, just like yours, I guess?) it makes it rather difficult to continue as a flex dev ;

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Tom Chiverton
On 15/07/15 09:14, Nigel Hillier wrote: Is there any point in continuing, if the security reputation is so poor that users have almost no choice but to uninstall ( or run it only on equipment disconnected from real life, surrounded by firewalls, moats, Doberman dogs ) I don't think it's any wor

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Scott Matheson
Hi The fact that there is a security issue in flash is not new, in fact they are security issue with almost all technology all the time, the real issue us the speed that these issue are fixed There are those in the industry that would like to see the end of flash, long live HTML5, this is IMH

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Angelo Lazzari
Tom, you're right but this news is breaking in every tech/dev blog and people who is not in IT world will keep in mind only the bad part of this situation: "Flash is dangerous for your computer security" Probably firstly Adobe and everyone of us should publicize the responsive concept you said

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Alain Ekambi
Bottom line is : As much as it s sad to admit. Interest in Flash based solutions(atleast web based one) is fading away rapidly. Even the Flex framework is more focusing to target HTML/CSS/JS than leveraging the Flash player. As someone who is still selling Flash based tools the future of Flash is

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Tom Chiverton
This news was 'breaking' yesterday, my time. Today, my time, Adobe have fixed everything; non story - as I hope you are leaving in all those 'IT bloggers' comments sections :-) Tom On 15/07/15 10:44, Angelo Lazzari wrote: Surely this breaking news is gold

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Angelo Lazzari
Yep!! would be great to link a official response of Adobe in our comments... however i posted the new release version link... Thanks Angelo El mié., 15 jul. 2015 a las 12:10, Tom Chiverton () escribió: > This news was 'breaking' yesterday, my time. > Today, my time, Adobe have fixed everything;

RE: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Kessler CTR Mark J
There is still is strong support for Flex. Flex has the ability to target Flash, Air, captive / native apps, and soon HTML5 (making great progress). Even with the occasional "the sky is falling" comment about flash, you will still have options for quite some time. -Mark

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Tomislav Pokrajcic
Well, HackingTeam company, the source of all the mess that happened these days is actually using Flex for building their user interfaces. https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-console https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-console-library Not sure about what they think about Flash, but it seems that they

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Scott Matheson
LoL It is all about sales There is no truth in the world Sent from my iPhone > On 15 Jul 2015, at 13:26, Tomislav Pokrajcic wrote: > > Well, HackingTeam company, the source of all the mess that happened these > days is actually using Flex for building their user interfaces. > https://githu

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Phil Gottfried
The logic behind the kill flash plugin is flawed. Apply the logic to operating systems, should we call for a ban of windows, andriod or osx? Lot of software has been found to result in exploits. Maybe we should have a call to ban php and html too since one needs to follow best practices to pre

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread flex
hat these updates actually roll out very fast and in very high numbers when they do. Plus I think they are rolled into some of the browsers now too so it's probably automatic. David -Original Message- From: Scott Matheson To: "" Sent: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 7:28 AM Subject: Re:

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Matthew Weir
ry fast and in very high numbers when they do. Plus I think they are rolled into some of the browsers now too so it's probably automatic. David -Original Message- From: Scott Matheson To: "" Sent: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 7:28 AM Subject: Re: Flex/Flash Viable still? LoL It is a

RE: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Saul DIaz
2:18 AM To: users@flex.apache.org Subject: RE: Flex/Flash Viable still? <http://www.ketv.com/money/firefox-blocks-flash-and-facebook-calls-for-its-d e> http://www.ketv.com/money/firefox-blocks-flash-and-facebook-calls-for-its-de ath/34154590 If I uninstall flash from my dev machi

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread flex
flex.apache.org" Sent: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 9:20 AM Subject: Re: Flex/Flash Viable still? I remember back in the late 90's Javascript was branded as evil and insecure... then they relabeled it HTML5 :) I move that we relabel flashplayer to HTML6. Bam! On Wednesday, J

RE: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread flex
I actually don't even use Firefox anymore, which is too bad since it was the original browser I used to debug because of the firebug, gasp, plugin! David -Original Message- From: Saul DIaz To: users@flex.apache.org Sent: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 9:29 AM Subject: RE: Flex/Flash Viable

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-16 Thread douglowder
Oh my, that is brilliant. I eagerly await the writing of "Thoughts on HTML5." What goes around comes around. -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-users.246.n4.nabble.com/Flex-Flash-Viable-still-tp10760p10792.html Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabbl

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-17 Thread flex
avaScript framework creators, video graphics software, animation tools, gaming platforms, etc. David -Original Message- From: douglowder To: users@flex.apache.org Sent: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 6:22 PM Subject: Re: Flex/Flash Viable still? Oh my, that is brilliant. I eagerly await the writing

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-17 Thread Udirley Otoni Pesse
mpetitive platform if there's a security update or something > else; app stores, browser vendors, JavaScript framework creators, video > graphics software, animation tools, gaming platforms, etc. > > David > > -----Original Message- > From: douglowder > To: users@flex.apach

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-25 Thread Vincent Sotto
and are happy to > > attack a competitive platform if there's a security update or something > > else; app stores, browser vendors, JavaScript framework creators, video > > graphics software, animation tools, gaming platforms, etc. > > > > David > > > &

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-27 Thread Carlos Velasco
heir own software and are happy to > > > attack a competitive platform if there's a security update or something > > > else; app stores, browser vendors, JavaScript framework creators, video > > > graphics software, animation tools, gaming platforms, etc. > &g