Practically speaking, I can see the benefits of flex and flash - I have used some great apps in them, and adobe do some really cool stuff, and are very friendly to developers. But the reason flash works as well as it does compared to browsers is largely due to it being just 1 runtime vendor to target (and its still not open source) - it would be more interesting to more folks of they would completely open up the runtime - certainly would level the playing field a bit. As it stands now, adobe don't seem at all open to that, and that worries me (there is gnash of course, but then you have the issue just the same as the browsers - you get different behaviors in different runtime implementations).
On Jun 30, 12:44 pm, ad <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > This rant seemed odd, especially bringing up flex so much. Does > anybody honestly believe google would consider using flex for the wave > ui?! Flash support is still bad in unix. Flex has its place, > especially in the business app world, but is disliked by many and the > interfaces are often clumsy or even inaccessible to some. JavaFx just > isn't open or mature yet, and obviously Silverlight is not an option. > Google has been all about speeding up javascript and making the > browser the app platform. Open standards/Chrome/javascript/html is > decidedly the google client platform of choice. > > Adam > > On Jun 29, 2:56 pm, ctwise <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Google wants very much for everything to move to HTML. They don't > > want Flash. They don't want Silverlight. They don't want JavaFX. > > All of those technologies move us away from discoverable data and all > > of the benefits of simple HTML. > > > HTML5 and Chrome are an attempt to make Flash and plug-ins pointless. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
