Just for a frame of reference, the IRS still has almost 80k employees on IE6.
> You're Fed, and you have IE8? Man, you are lucky... > > Steve 'Cutter' Blades > Adobe Community Professional > Adobe Certified Expert > Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer > ____________ > http://cutterscrossing.com > > > Co-Author "Learning Ext JS 3.2" Packt Publishing 2010 > https://www.packtpub. com/learni> ng-ext-js-3-2-for-building-dynamic-desktop-style-user-interfaces/book > > "The best way to predict the future is to help create it" > > > 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<quackfuzed@gmail. > com> 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 > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348760 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
