You're Fed, and you have IE8? Man, you are lucky...

Steve 'Cutter' Blades
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On 11/15/2011 3:09 PM, Scott Stewart wrote:
> So are they going to try to force adoption of new browsers? I can tell
> you that in the Federal sector this won't wash..
> (says me working from my federal Win XP IE 8 machine).
>
> HTML 5 is very cool, but it's World Dominance is greatly exaggerated.
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Matt Quackenbush<[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>> CF is indeed alive and well.  Flex?  Flash?  Nopers.  Done.  Be sure to
>> read the portions from Adobe where they clearly state that for all future
>> enterprise development THEY recommend HTML5 and NOT Flash/Flex.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Scott 
>> Stewart<[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hasn't the flex SDK *always* been open source?
>>>
>>> I think this last line contradicts your statement
>>>
>>> "Is Adobe still committed to Flash Builder?
>>>
>>> Yes. Flash Builder will continue to be developed and Adobe will work
>>> to ensure Flex developers can use Flash Builder as their development
>>> tool with future releases of Flex SDK."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> on a personal note:
>>>
>>> Can we all take a step back, grab a deep breath and assess the
>>> situation in it's entirety before jumping to doomsday conclusions?
>>> The only thing I've seen that's concrete so far is that Adobe is
>>> dumping direct development of the Flash plugin for mobile
>>> environments. Their answer (IMO) wrap your Flash in the AIR SDK.
>>>
>>> ColdFusion is still alive and well
>>> Flex is still alive and well
>>> Flex Builder is still alive and well
>>>
>>> This gets old and we're not winning any converts by being paranoid
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Mike Chabot<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>> Adobe announced this week that they are ending their commitment to
>>>> further Flex development. Flex 4.6 will likely be the last version
>>>> Adobe releases and the Flex SDK engineers will be reassigned to HTML 5
>>>> projects. Future Flex development will come from the open source
>>>> community.
>>>>
>>>> The announcement is here:
>>>> http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/11/your-questions-about-flex.html
>>>>
>>>> A petition asking the Adobe CEO to step down is here:
>>>>
>>> http://www.change.org/petitions/adobe-systems-shantanu-narayen-to-step-down-as-ceo
>>>> -Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
> 

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