The relevant documents are: [1] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html [2] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html
It is [2] that mentions "five years". But realize that, to the best of my knowledge, there is no code that will cause Flash to stop working after some day about 4 years from now. To do so would "break the web" and neither Adobe nor the major desktop/laptop OS vendors are interested in doing that. It is just that Adobe is not committing to new versions or taking support calls after that date. Also, IMO, if something happens that gives Adobe a reason to extend that date, they probably would, but I don't really know what that would be. Meanwhile, Apache Flex is doing the best it can to make sure that Flex has fewer bugs, supports more locales, etc. And some of us are even looking into a next generation of Flex that will let you use MXML and ActionScript to create apps that run in a browser or on mobile devices without Flash/AIR so you don't have be quite so concerned about this "five year" commitment. On 5/14/13 11:12 AM, "Lee Burrows" <subscripti...@leeburrows.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I seem to remember that Adobe committed to supporting Flash Player and > AIR for 5 years - during, or shortly after, the Flex Community Summit > (of Dec 11). > > Is that right, or did i imagine it? - i cant find any reference to it on > adobe.com -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
