Kevin Hoyt wrote: > Hey Stefano, > > Excellent point, and thank you very much for clarifying! > > The thread I was thinking of (on this list) was about running Timeline on > the desktop, which wasn't previously possible with Adobe AIR Beta 1 (when > the question came up), but now is with Adobe AIR Beta 2. I was asked back > then (by somebody on the team I believe) to keep the list up to date, and > this seemed like a good opportunity to do so. I should have been more clear > that it was Timeline I was referring to, clearly not SIMILE on the whole. > > I apologize for my knee-jerk reaction.
Kevin, no need to apologize. You're not the first one that makes this mistake and I'm sure you won't be the last one either, I just felt the need to clarify because there are almost 800 people on this list and increasing naming confusion is not in anybody's best interest. > I also want to be clear about my intents, in that I'm not trying to sell > anybody on Adobe products or AIR. The AIR SDK and runtime are both free and > I stand to gain nothing from trying to fish a list such as this one. I > believe the sophistication of Timeline is a testament to the capabilities of > JavaScript and the browser, and have recommended it as a test case for our > quality engineering team. > > I list my company/title in the email in the interest of full disclosure, so > please don't react with hostility. What and do and who I work for doesn't > mean that I don't have projects with requirements that match the features of > Timeline. It is acceptable to work for a software vendor and yet still > have interests in compelling software projects such as this, is it not? If > I hadn't included that information, and then it was revealed later (even > with the best of interests), I would have been heavily flamed. Oh, I'm sorry if you felt that your affiliation or the mentioning of Adobe AIR had anything to do with my reply, it didn't! I guess you were the unlucky one that managed to cross my personal threshold of 'misnaming' :-) As far as Adobe AIR goes, while we currently don't use Flash, Flex or derivatives in any shape or form for this project (the research one, I mean), preferring to use DHTML/ajax approaches, but we are surely happy to know that users can enjoy our software projects in more variety of platforms. In that sense, your message is welcome and appreciated and I'm very sorry if I conveyed the opposite impression. > Regards, > Kevin Hoyt > Platform Evangelist > Adobe Systems, Inc. > > On 10/16/07 1:15 PM, "Stefano Mazzocchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Kevin Hoyt wrote: >> For what it¹s worth, >> >> You can also run Simile on the >> desktop using Adobe AIR. > > FWIW, "SIMILE" is the name of the entire research >> project, not of any > particular software project. > > So, while it is very >> confusing (at least to my ears) to hear people say > things such as "run SIMILE >> on the desktop" (I would love a technology > that ran a research project on a >> desktop ;-), I do find myself curious > about *which one* of our many software >> projects (listed on the sidebar > on the top right of our home page >> http://simile.mit.edu/) this thread is > referring to. > -- Stefano Mazzocchi Digital Libraries Research Group Research Scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology E25-131, 77 Massachusetts Ave skype: stefanomazzocchi Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA email: stefanom at mit . edu ------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
