This is something that I have been thinking about. Most of the solutions out there are flash online or flash offline but not that supportive of both at the same time. There are many cases where software needs to be an application and net savvy. For example, creating an application using flex 2 where you run locally and access web services or flash remote objects as if you were in a browser. and being able to write the serialized objects to the local disk (encrypted). It would then be possible that if there was internet service, the application could communicate to the remote location. Otherwise, it could use the local cache. This brings the idea of a rich internet application out of the browser and onto the computer. It would be great to have a framework that you can develop flex applications within. And, it would have the functionality that Java Web Software provides such as checking for newer versions and downloads them.
Given the current state of the player and possible solutions, maybe the approach would be to use the Gecko SDK and embed an optimized version of the Firefox browser as the basis of such framework. I've never done this but it probably work (given the flash player is written using XPCOM interface). The biggest advantage is that Adobe develops the player for this open source browser so it would be supported. It would also give you the ability to develop flex apps for both OSX and Windows. Updates would be done by downloading the swf's and having a version file on the server. So, you could get all of the advantages of using the Active X without being tied to Microsoft and have all of the additional rendering power and support packages that it built into Firefox already. And if it was open source with a license that allows commercial use, there could be an online community that expands the system functionality that is currently tied because of the wild web surfing. I think this solution would be really interesting. Patrick --- In [email protected], "Nick Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's dead in terms of it's no longer being developed, nor supported. In > terms of use people still use it because of ActiveX garbage on sites that > doesn't work with anything else. Kind of the anti-flash. ;-) > > On 7/11/06, ryanm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Open source != open specs. > > > > > You can get source on the web if you look for it. > > > > > Isn't IE on the Mac dead these days anyway ? > > > > > Not even close. Funny how the dev geeks always seem to think so > > (wishful > > thinking?), but server stats say otherwise. > > > > ryanm > > > > > > > > -- > > Flexcoders Mailing List > > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
