This is exactly why Im hoping for so much from Apollo. Flash needs to bridge the gap a little with desktop and web. I love how flash is small and has penetration through the roof. If Adobe were to extend the 8.5 player just a little bit to allow desktop programmers more access to its, it could really hold alot of people in this area.
anyway its gonna take some time for things to pan out here, and once the dust has settled Im sure well see some cool content made with sparkle. For now Im sticking with flash and flex 2 (yay) and will continue to "Play" with sparkle just out of interest. Cheers Cam. > > i've read specs, watched demonstrations, i've TRIED to be excited, but all > > i can tell is that it's another proprietary tech trying to cash in on a > > growing market. > > > Which specs did you read and which demos did you watch? Certainly not > the same ones I've read and watched. First of all Sparkle doesn't even play > the same *sport* as Flash, let alone in the same field. The uses of Sparkle > in the browser will be next to nil for at least several years. The few uses > it has in a browser will be reserved for special purpose, controlled > enviornment applications, and are in no way a threat to Flash. So I guess I > don't know where any of this rant comes from. > > Sparkle is awesome. It is a major step in the right direction in terms > of workflow improvement and abstraction of display (view, presentation, > whatever) layer code. It has little to nothing to do with the web right now. > It has to do with building user interfaces for applications that will run on > Longhorn. > Yes, it's properietary. So is Windows. Get over it and find something > meaningful to argue about. > > Oh, and your rant about forcing people to use PC hardware, WTF? What > platform *doesn't* use PC hardware these days? > > ryanm > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
