+1 Om! I think the main "question" is: will flash live "forever" to permit our apps to stay up & running forever too?
I can somehow accept flash stops improve his features but i need flash still be available for a long time to permit our clients to use their apps. Angelo El sáb., 22 ago. 2015 a las 9:44, OmPrakash Muppirala (<[email protected]>) escribió: > 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. > > >
