I emailed Lee Brimelow at TheFlashBlog.com about this issue, I'd love to hear what someone within Adobe has to say re this issue. I dont expect a personal response of course but maybe if enough of us email him he'll write a post on it.
.m On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Steven Sacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the AIR tip, here's the thing. Desktop application development is an > entirely different beast than website application development and Flash > website development. You must be extremely conscientious about your memory > management with desktop applications because they might be running for days > or even weeks at a time, whereas website apps and Flash sites will only be > running for maximum a few hours. > > In this way, AIR is inviting trouble because they're attempting to bring > Desktop development appealing to the masses, when really, the masses have no > idea what they're getting into, or what they're subjecting their users to. > Of course, you gotta learn sometime and all the memory management stuff you > learn can be applied to your Flash sites, as well. > > This expose by Grant Skinner is important specifically because of Adobe AIR > more so than anything else. I was developing Flash desktop applications > with Flash wrappers and Director for a few years so I know a lot of the > pitfalls, one of the biggest being tight memory management. > This extremely bad memory leak in AS3 is a death knell for AIR. Until it > is fixed, AIR can no longer be seriously considered as a reliable platform > for desktop application development. People are better off using AS2 and > one of the other wrappers out there. There's just no room for terribly bad > memory leaks like this in the world of desktop application development, > especially when they're completely out of your control even when you do > everything right and you have no way of fixing it. > > Adobe has really dug themselves into a deep hole here. > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
