i think that adobe should concentrate on 2 areas - the air runtime for application development and the canvas tag for web deployment
at the sxsw conference, the adobe flash guy was getting a lot crap over the canvas tag and he eventually responded with the none-too-indecipherable statement that 'adobe makes tools' - they will go where the money is and in the future that will probably be sans-plugin for the web at least a On 17 May 2010 01:44, Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) < [email protected]> wrote: > Sort of makes one wonder if Apple knows Adobe isn't tied to a specific > platform whereas Apple by definition is. > > Very insightful - a specific technology makes that technology dwindle, it's > an unstoppable force. Adobe is more loose footed than Apple in the current > bruhaha - creating the 10.1 player to work well across a variety of devices > vs a locked down business model. Consumers and Adube won't give a f**k > whether the creative output from their products is through HTML5, the Flash > Player or some other technology. > > That said, if WebKit works identically across platforms, Adobe has nothing > to lose by adapting the products to target it. The only way I can see this > making sense for Apple is if they're aiming to eclipse Adobe with an > authoring tool. And if it exports to Android, RIM, etc, well I'll adopt to > it. But it seems to me Adobe is ahead in that game. > > (Sent from my Mac Mini, haha) > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [ > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt S. [ > [email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:29 PM > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Oh the irony > > Absolutely. Where HTML5 can replace Flash, it should. I have no > problem with that. I actually think HTML5 is pretty cool. I just dont > think it needs to be an either/or question, and find the > struggle-to-the-death approach that Jobs is championing ludicrous, and > find alot of the "Flash is dead because..." statements to be based on > false assumptions. Yeah, of course, if you ban it from devices, it > will die, but that isnt exactly allowing the technology to evolve > organically. Bad technology dies under its own weight. No one needed > to drown Netscape or Director or Cobol in the bathtub in order to get > rid of them. If Flash's day is done, it will die soon enough on its > own. All Jobs has done is convince a whole swath of decision-makers > that Flash is toxic and shouldnt be touched, even in cases where Flash > is actually the superior option, and thats just a shame. How many game > developers are now being asked "We want to do something like > http://www.gettheglass.com/....but NOT in Flash, because Flash is > dead. You can do that in HTML5 right? And it needs to run perfectly on > the iPad". > > .m > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll say this again: I see no financial benefit to Adobe for keeping the > Flash Player the standard for a rich Internet. If HTL5 + JS can do > everything - or part of everything - the Flash Player can do. There's no > harm done to Adobe by adding a "Export as HTML5" option. We've even seen it > demonstrated with the Smart Paste videos. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
