Tom, You're right about the haXe mailing list being active. It's encouraging.
Kurt On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:33 AM, tom rhodes <tom.rho...@gmail.com> wrote: > the haxe forum isn't very active but the mailing list is, and it is a great > place to get help to get started. > > this is the new home of the list > > https://groups.google.com/group/haxelang/topics?pli=1 > > you have to dig around a bit to get going as documentation is limited at > the moment but the list is the best place to get the information you need. > > if you want to do html5 using code that is familiar to you as an AS3 coder > then look at NME as i mentioned in a previous post. > > On 30 November 2011 13:16, Kurt Dommermuth <k...@kurtdommermuth.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Jason, > > > > You're very first statement is exactly what interests me too. You wrote > > "Thinking of starting to learn haXe to produce OOP apps and export as > > Javascript for HTML 5 apps." > > > > What are your thoughts so far? I just looked at Haxe too but I'm > concerned > > because there doesn't seem to be a lot of actvity in the Haxe forum. > > > > I'm at a loss this morning because at this moment I really just want to > > make a web based app that performs well on the iPhone. I have looked at > the > > following and am not finding satisfaction: > > > > appmobi - they get too many hooks into you and force you down paths you > may > > not necessarily want to go - like using the Amazon network to store > files. > > I just wanted to grab my resources and upload them to MY server. No easy > > task with appmobi. > > > > phonegap - everyone seems to love it, but it seems to be primarily geared > > to use traditional web based tools to compile to native apps. I want to > be > > on the web - not the device. > > > > jQuery mobile - assumes you want to make a web site, not an app and > injects > > all kinds of styles that get in the way. I'm a big fan of jQuery, but > > jQuery mobile is very confining. > > > > sencha - seems promising, but within 2 hours of working with it I seem to > > have found a bug. I cannot add a listener. May be my misunderstanding > > though, so I'm going to continue. > > > > Based on this conversation I looked at NME, but again, my small > mindedness, > > it feels like voodoo and it just doesn't seem to put much emphasis on > > publishing for web based apps. > > > > Overall, I must say I resent the hell out of Steve Jobs. His comments > have > > thrown us back into the dark ages. I look at the options to accommodate > his > > vision and I see one Frankenstein solution after another. HTML5 seems to > > be a handful of multimedia tags meant to make everyone and their mom a > web > > programer and that it will work on everything. Hahhahahaha. The problem > > is that the reality is it takes a boat load of JS and fall backs to make > it > > work. > > > > We had AS3. It did the job and though it was flawed it was far and away > > the best cross platform solution there was. dammit. Because of one dummy > > and his legions of lemmings we're back to using 15 year old scripting > > languages to get things done. > > > > Hmmmm. Guess I'm a little feisty and bitter this morning! > > > > :) > > > > Thanks for letting me vent. > > > > Anyway, I appreciate the discussion very much on this topic. > > > > Kurt > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Merrill, Jason < > > jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com> wrote: > > > > > Thinking of starting to learn haXe to produce OOP apps and export as > > > Javascript for HTML 5 apps. Checked it out years ago, but decided > against > > > it since it was not part of the normal ecosystem and would have to be > > > sharing code with non-haXe AS3 developers. But not thinking of the > > future, > > > I am more interested in it given what's happening with Adobe and HTML5. > > > Anyone done that and does it work well for that? Can you have a single > > > source base and export for AS3 apps and Javascript for HTML 5 or are > > there > > > caveats? > > > > > > Jason Merrill > > > Instructional Technology Architect II > > > Bank of America Global Learning > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > This message w/attachments (message) is intended solely for the use of > > the > > > intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, > > > confidential or proprietary. 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