Yes, an open source API would be transparent, easy to use and developed much faster.
There are a lot of map web services out there, Yahoo!, Bing, MapQuest, etc. They sell their data to organisations and they need developers to create the apps that the organisations want. There are just too many situations where JS is going to be too heavy, for example for relatively sophisticated apps on mobile devices or when you want to incorporate 3D and/or games. In these situations JS will grind to a halt on all but the fastest computers. Flash Player and Native desktop apps using the Flash API can do it better, lighter, faster and more consistently between different platforms and browsers. Seriously, the more you look at this decision, the more it looks like Larry Page is doing it for political reasons. A personal prejudice against Flash (I've met a lot of developers who spread FUD about it), or just trying to impress shareholders/stakeholders by having a big clearout of less than megaprofitable projects on the payroll. They're looking at the bottom line when they should be doing what got them to where they are in the first place - looking ahead. Just my €0.02! On Sep 12, 8:13 pm, randhawp <[email protected]> wrote: > Abandoning Flex/Flash domain is probably not correct because many enterprise > projects in the RIA domain are using Adobe. HTML5 is a far cry , and > MS silverlight is dead. We are a small company and our product is based on > google maps flex. Since it is not AIR, getting java scripts maps within the > application is clumsy, besides we have done quite a few sophisticated > dashboard stuff with it that is going to take ages to figure out how to do > in JS. Google please reconsider before killing this - Adobe dev tools are > very good, and by just supporting the JS version of the maps you are cutting > of a large section of the developer community. With adobe air tools fast > maturing on mobile devices, you should not walk away from the platform. > Please support enterprise developers. > > I hope my voice is heard. > > Thanks > > Puneet -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API For Flash" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash?hl=en.
