Hi,
nothing is black and white! HTML5/CSS3/JS has some advantages in some
areas, and actually is without doubt the most dynamic beast
BUT: I love to know my job is done, once the FLASH application runs in
one Browser.
Every browser supporting FLASH will produce the same results; no worries
about different video formats, fonts, layouts, supported features,
weekly changes.
Have you ever tracked the time needed to test all major hardware and
software platforms with a non FLASH solution? A nightmare; and a moving
target...
I hope we'll be back to normal without those heated hype discussions
about the "better technology". Let's continue to use what we know and
have, when it makes sense.
And that still is true for many projects. Then there will be a future.
Nothing disappears as fast as "hoped". Does anybody remember the
forecast about "paperless" future?
This gives me enough confidence to start new projects based on
Flex/Air/AS3 even today. I don't want to miss this platform. And I'm
glad it is supported by Apache!
My 2 Euro cents ;-)
Hans
Am 28.02.2013 15:15, schrieb Scott Matheson:
Hi
I am only a user of flex, I have spent 3 years of my time building a app
for a charity, and we have 5-10 year life in the product, what I know,
flex works, it is simple, it works, the good chaps on this list are
investing a lot of there time to give flex a future, yes HTML/CSS/JS is
the elephant in the room, if / when we have quality cross-compiling we
will look back and think adobe giving flex to Apache was the best move ever
We just need to give this project time
Anyway that¹s my 2cents
Scott
On 2/28/13 8:52 AM, "Harbs" <gavha...@gmail.com> wrote:
Huh?
You can compile MXML to AIR today. Who said anything about not supporting
that?
If you are talking about the Falcon Compiler (which is not required for
compiling to AIR), the work for MXML compilation is currently being
finished by Gordon Smith. That's near-term support. The HTML /JS support
is a longer term goal. I've never seen any indication to cause your
concerns.
Harbs
On Feb 28, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Terry Corbet wrote:
Why is it that you fail to see that each time you advertize your rush
to cross-compiling MXML to HTML/CSS/Javascript and never provide status
concerning the compilation of MXML to run in the AIR environment you are
causing the very anxiety that we all deal with? You know that your
employer is going to stop shipping the old compiler in favor of the new
compiler. You know that the Gaming Guru will not let any resource be
devoted to having the new compiler successfully compile Flex, i.e. Spark
Components. So, exactly where are we supposed to feel confident that
the Apache Flex project will let us maintain 'parity' [your favoirite
word] in regards to compiling our AIR MXML applications with the new
compiler? I have every reason to believe that you will achieve your
objective, which is to have the Falcon work let you cross-compile to the
environment that you believe has future possibilities, and, as long as
one person is on loan one day per week, to get MXML compilation working,
not much reason whatsoever to believe that on-going developoment of AIR
applictions has a future.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com>
To: <users@flex.apache.org>; <flex-us...@incubator.apache.org>
Sent: February 27, 2013 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology
On 2/27/13 9:48 PM, "Devesh Mishra" <devesh.mis...@mastek.com> wrote:
Hi,
Is there any future of Flex technology, as we can see that there are
no big
improvements are coming in Flex. According to today's scenario, Flex
is only
for desktop application and we are entering into mobile technology. So
it's a
bit difficult to understand the future existence of Flex.
If we talk from market point of view, everyone is moving towards
HTML5/Android/Ios, after Adobe declaration for no support in
Flash/Flex.
Adobe did not say "no support". Adobe is still supporting Flash, and
you
can still purchase Flex support contracts from Adobe. Adobe donated
Flex to
Apache so it can continue to be developed in the open. Adobe continues
to
make releases of Flash.
Still, lots of people are moving to HTML5/Android/IOS, and so is Apache
Flex. If you monitor the d...@flex.apache.org mailing list you will see
that
we are hard at work on trying to cross-compile MXML and ActionScript to
HTML/JS/CSS which can then be run through PhoneGap/Cordova to create
mobile
apps. It is still in its infancy and we have lots of work ahead, but
we are
making progress.
See [1] for more on one approach we are taking.
[1]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Alex%27s+FlexJS+Prototyp
e
--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
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