This is basically all the rats abandoning ship in my opinion, here's an article from just over a month ago from Adobe that completely contradicts what they announced last Friday, how is this possible that they didn't have foresight to see this coming,?!
http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/08/flex-where-were-headed.html Farid On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Haykel BEN JEMIA <hayke...@gmail.com>wrote: > ** > > > Because today HTML5 is not yet ready and will not be ready for the next > 5-10 years in my opinion. There are still many things you can only do in > Flash and many other that are very difficult to do with HTML5. In my > opinion HTML5 is a hype anyway, some new tags, css and js elements and > functions. Browser-compatibility, layout, animation, video and much more is > handled very easily with Flex/Flash. Should we replace the strong-typed and > compiled AS 3 language with JavaScript? I'm working on a video chat > application that uses FMS and P2P multicats, can you do that with HTML?? > > Personnally I don't think Flex is dead, the Flex community will continue > to implement it and there will be some companies offering support for it. > > Only when Adobe stops the development of the Flash player for the Desktop > I will say that Flash is really dead. > > Let's help the Spoon project and make Flex better than ever! > > Haykel Ben Jemia > > Allmas > Web & RIA Development > http://www.allmas-tn.com > > > > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Rick Schmitty <flexc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ** >> >> >> I've been a Flex developer since it's first beta however many years ago. >> Today I just saw this response from Adobe: >> http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/11/your-questions-about-flex.html >> >> >> *Does Adobe recommend we use Flex or HTML5 for our enterprise >>> application development? >>> *In the long-term, *we believe HTML5 will be the best technology for >>> enterprise application development*. We also know that, currently, Flex >>> has clear benefits for large-scale client projects typically associated >>> with desktop application profiles. >>> Given our experiences innovating on Flex, we are extremely well >>> positioned to positively contribute to the advancement of HTML5 >>> development, starting with mobile applications. In fact, *many of the >>> engineers and product managers who worked on Flex SDK will be moving to >>> work on our HTML efforts*. We will continue making significant >>> contributions to open web technologies like WebKit & jQuery, advance the >>> development of PhoneGap and create new tools that solve the challenges >>> developers face when building applications with HTML5. >> >> >> Emphasis mine. If anyone has followed any game >> or application development where 'many members' of the team are switched to >> the next greatest thing, that normally means there are >> few maintenance developers for the existing product and not much new >> innovation to it. The company wants its best and brightest working on its >> future, not supporting its past. >> >> Combine that with the facts that Adobe bought PhoneGap and released Edge >> preview. It's not hard to put all these facts together and see that long >> term they want an IDE & framework for app development in HTML5. Perhaps >> Flex5 will be an HTML5 version of Flex as they start putting together html5 >> components >> >> >> Outside of "having to support IE6" why would you choose to start a >> project in Flex today? >> >> > >
