Hi,
I totally agree with Mike.
HTML 5 is a poor alternative.
Anyway, if we must deliver HTML 5, why choose Flex ?
It's better to choose true HTML 5 / js frameworks.
HTML 5 with Flex will have too much limitations.
Perhaps it would be better to have Java/C#/Objectice C outputs...
Le 15/05/2013 13:10, mike_l_mcconn...@lamd.uscourts.gov a écrit :
I worry less about the message than I do the motivation behind the push
towards HTML5. It still makes no sense to me from a developer's
perspective, though I've tried very hard to understand it. "Standards
based" or not, HTML5 is inferior technology when compared to what can be
delivered with Flash and AIR (and the ease with which it can be done using
development environments like Flex). Users don't know or care about the
runtime environment in which their applications run, nor should they. This
isn't really about users, though. It's not about the web. It's not about
getting behind a "standard". What it's about is creating demand for
products that make the difficult task of developing in HTML/CSS/JavaScript
a bit more palatable. And where there's demand, there's profit
(theoretically, anyway). I don't believe for a minute that this is some
noble "drive the web forward" initiative. That's only the veneer. The
true goal, in my not so humble opinion, is what it always is and always
will be: enhancing the bottom line. There's certainly nothing wrong with a
company making money....it's why they exist, after all. But to tout what
is clearly a less suitable solution (for RIAs) as the next great frontier
is, at best, disingenuous. These are my opinions...your mileage may vary.
M. McConnell
From: Lee Burrows <subscripti...@leeburrows.com>
To: users@flex.apache.org
Date: 05/15/2013 06:15 AM
Subject: Re: future of flash (yes, that old chestnut again)
Thanks Alex.
I appreciate your comments - with the 5 year commitment from Adobe, and
FlexJS on the horizon, i can relax (a bit).
I just worry about your employers sometimes. At Max 2011, the message
was "use HTML5 for RIAs", and shortly afterwards mobile Flash Player was
dropped. At Max 2013, the message was "use HTML5 for games" - which made
me wonder what bombshell Adobe may drop this time.
--
Lee Burrows
ActionScripter
On 14/05/2013 20:29, Alex Harui 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
