Re: [flexcoders] Re: Mac equivalent of ActiveX

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:07:04 -0700

Is free reasonable enough? Apollo is a runtime, much like the Flash Player, only instead of it being a browser runtime like the Flash Player is, it is a runtime that installs at the OS level. It will be distributed freely, as is the Flash player, and as far as distribution mechanisms and bundling with your app and such, we're waiting to see what Adobe does with that.

On 7/12/06, palmer2012 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I didn't know about Apollo. I hope the pricing is reasonable. Still, it would be interesting
to see Firefox develop in that direction. It makes a lot of sense. Currently both the
browser and web server technology is quite limited. Everything needs to take two
evolutionary steps forward.

thanks,


Patrick

--- In [email protected], "Nick Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Patrick... gee that sounds an awful lot like... Apollo :-)
>
> If you're not familar with it, check it out
> http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo
>
>
> On 7/11/06, palmer2012 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > 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] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "Nick

> > Collins" <ndcollins@> 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 <ryanm@> 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
> > > >
> > > >
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