Can we talk less about Adobe and move Apache flex to the heights, above our imaginations, Exceptation :)
With Regards, Pratimesh On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Doug McCune <d...@dougmccune.com> wrote: > > > > I can't imagine it would be ever be in Adobe's interest in breaking > > the web by somehow trying to break existing installs of Flash Player or > > prevent future installs. > > > Michael, you'll soon come to learn that this is the Adobe party line about > the Flash/Flex relationship. Adobe has no interest in "breaking the web" so > Adobe won't decide to make older content produced for Flash player (like > the swfs you create today) stop working at any point in the near or semi > long term future. I think this is true and fairly logical/rational. The > difficulty comes in when the definition of "the web" starts changing and we > start getting more and more "web browsers" that don't support flash out of > the box (and which Adobe has clearly decided not to ever support going > forward). So we already know that mobile browsers on Android no longer > count (no Flash on Chrome for Android, and no updates now on any Android > browsers going forward). And of course Safari on iOS is the obvious one. > But in my mind the big question is what starts happening when there are > more and more screens used for accessing the web that are born without > Flash support and are guaranteed now to never get it? > > Your Flex apps, as they are today, will continue to work on the browsers > that you know today (IE/Chrome/FF/Opera/etc/etc) running on "desktop" or > "laptop" computers that you know today. I think everyone agrees that > anything beyond that is completely up in the air. Adobe doesn't need to > stop existing Flash content working where it used to work to kill Flash. We > just have to get to a point where the majority of (new) web browsers don't > support it from the start. > > All that said, Flex today remains an incredibly viable choice for many > business apps. I say that as someone currently developing and maintaining a > lage-scale Flex app. I'm definitely not trying to be uber-pessimistic here, > just realistic. Although you'll certainly get more positive spins on the > whole Adobe situation from others on this list. But your concerns are > valid, they are very real, and despite those concerns Flex may still be the > right choice now and the right choice over the next few years as things > progress (which is the conclusion I've made myself). >
