I think if you do that a lot of folks have their *old* apps and are forced to sit some weeks in their office trying to shift it to AS3, stay with the old platform or find another solution.
sebastian 2009/9/8 Raju Bitter <[email protected]> > Hm, no answer? Is that something you don't want to discuss with the > community? > > On Aug 31, 2009, at 1:05 AM, Raju Bitter wrote: > > Do you still plan to support SWF8 with OL 5.0? I believe that OL needs to > shift the focus to DHTML/HTML5 and Flash 10 instead. Flash 8 is just > out-dated by now, and I cannot imagine good use for the runtime. According > to Adobe, Flash 10 is installed on nearly 87% of Internet-connected desktop > computers by now: > > http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2009/07/welcome-to-the-flash-platform.html > > The new Flash 10 features are much more interesting for OpenLaszlo than > continued SWF8 support, especially things like the improved text engine and > 3d functionality. > > Flash 10 and mobile: Adobe announced a beta version of Flash 10 player for > Android, Palm Pre and other phones for October (Max 2009). For some time > SFW8 was still an option for Flash Lite 2.1 or 3.0 - although I don't know > of any deployed application, but that will change with the release of Flash > 10 player for mobile devices. > > I know that Laszlo still uses SWF8 for Webtop, but it will only be a matter > of time until that's not needed any more. > > > -- Sebastian Wagner http://www.webbase-design.de http://openmeetings.googlecode.com http://www.laszlo-forum.de [email protected]
