Saying that people can live without flash is silly. People can live without smartphones in general On 31 Oct 2013 19:44, <f...@dfguy.us> wrote:
> I think that Flex has abhuge number of benefits for data driven > applications. Project organization via packages and extending components, > the strengths of AS over javascript and control over objects rendered by > the runtime. Also the ability to create complex animations in Flash > professional and import tgem in and access via AS. Then there are all of > the features you get out of AIR with native extensions and stage3d and etc. > > The main things I see as hurdles are the rendering issues between the > display list and the hardware accelerated content, issues with native text > inputs and slight lag on large lists. Also the webview can't be interacted > with so you have to just watch the url. There is just general fear about > Adobe supporting AIR going forward but I think that will be ok. If there > was a way to make a starling lile list for mobile and some softening of the > rougness around the native controls I don't know any other comparible cross > platform. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Chiverton <t...@extravision.com> > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Sent: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:08 PM > Subject: Re: Mozilla takes on Flash > > On 31/10/2013 16:58, Kessler CTR Mark J wrote: > > I'm guessing outside of this controlled environment, having the general > public access to an application would be the uphill battle you have laid > out. > It depends on the audience though. > We're deploying to people who, generally, have multi-megabit ADSL-class > connections as a minimum. > Even the first time hit of ~3meg isn't much off a slow down, and we use > local RSL for the SDK classes, so at least when we do a release it's > only a ~800k download until we update it again. > > Tom > >
