Can't we use both? Why pick one and kill the other one? On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Me.Com <[email protected]> wrote:
> Flash used to be the only game in town. Now, there is nothing that Flash > can do which could not be done by JS. Maybe if Adobe open source Flash > Player… the community can resolve all the security and performance issues > that Flash is synonymous with… but it will require time… and it still will > not answer the fundamental question - why bother? Yes… there are number of > Flash applications which some company rely on… but no one can argue that > there are enough of these to justify keeping flash around. Sorry… if your > business relies on flash… you will get burn. Better accept it ASAP and > develop plan B. > > -- > Me.Com > Sent with Airmail > > On August 21, 2015 at 19:36:05 , core000 ([email protected]) wrote: > > Alex, let me first say that I commend you and your team on the effort on > maturing the FlexJS platform. However, from watching the videos from you > and your team on the overview and progress of Flex JS, the tone sounds one > of defeat. e.g. "transitioning to Flex JS will not convert all the AS > code, but atleast you do not have to do everything from scratch in JS".As > the mention of Flash on the Adobe site gets more rare each time I visit, I > don't see where Flash plays in Adobe's strategy anymore. Suggestion 1: > Why not convince Adobe to make the Flash Player open source and hand it > over > to Apache? I'm not sure why they would want to hold on to it. I own a tech > firm in NYC and all of my platforms that I build for my clients are in > Flex, > which they are thrilled about. Having to wait for Flex JS to mature and > semi-learning a new language does not seem the best way forward. Acquiring > Flash Player will ensure that the plugin consistently is patched (like OSX, > Windows,IOS, Android) and let us continue to mature our current > apps.Suggestion 2: From the time in 2011 when Steve Jobs attacked Flash, > it's been down hill for the Flex platform. Recently, you have Facebook > asking for the death to Flash. Why would they want something that their > platform does not even depend on to be decommissioned? And Kevin Lynch, > the father of Flash from Macromedia, now works at Apple. I sense something > fishy is going on. Also, my team and I have also researched HTML5/JS. > Besides a few good libraries like D3.js, I'm not sure what the hype is > about. Most of the features are not available in all browsers, JS > libraries pop up and die out, and the look and feel (e.g. jQuery) is > outdated. It feels like the 90's all over again. We must put effort in > socializing Flash/Flex benefits again. Perhaps having Flex vs. HTML5 sites > up to showcase how far ahead of the game Flex is.I'm confident that many in > the Flex community are concerned that any day Flash Player will be > decommissioned and that will put most of us (many in huge corporations) in > a > bind. Adobe seems to be a company that can buckle under pressure.What are > your (and the community here) thoughts? Thanks,Core000 > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/Attention-Alex-Harui-Acquire-Flash-Player-tp11010.html > Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
