[flexcoders] Re: Mac equivalent of ActiveX

2006-07-12 Thread palmer2012
This is something that I have been thinking about. Most of the solutions out there are flash online or flash offline but not that supportive of both at the same time. There are many cases where software needs to be an application and net savvy. For example, creating an application using

[flexcoders] Re: Mac equivalent of ActiveX

2006-07-12 Thread palmer2012
to. Anyway, thanks for the idea, I learnt something new. -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ryanm Sent: Wednesday, 12 July 2006 5:27 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Mac equivalent of ActiveX

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Mac equivalent of ActiveX

2006-07-12 Thread Nick Collins
Patrick... gee that sounds an awful lot like... Apollo :-)If you're not familar with it, check it outhttp://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo On 7/11/06, palmer2012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is something that I have been thinking about. Most of the

[flexcoders] Re: Mac equivalent of ActiveX

2006-07-12 Thread palmer2012
I didn't know about Apollo. I hope the pricing is reasonable. Still, it would be interesting to see Firefox develop in that direction. It makes a lot of sense. Currently both the browser and web server technology is quite limited. Everything needs to take two evolutionary steps

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Mac equivalent of ActiveX

2006-07-12 Thread Nick Collins
Is free reasonable enough? Apollo is a runtime, much like the Flash Player, only instead of it being a browser runtime like the Flash Player is, it is a runtime that installs at the OS level. It will be distributed freely, as is the Flash player, and as far as distribution mechanisms and