Hi Alex, -- Music to my ears!
Sent from my iPad On 2013-05-14, at 15:29, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > 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 >
