On Feb 8, 2007, at 8:10 AM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
Recently someone suggested it might be a good idea of RB was able
to produce
FLASH source from RB projects, I noticed this article in the
register today
- the first time I have come across a smartphone that uses FLASH as
the
front end ( and I presume preferred app platform ) instead of
symbian or
linux etc etc..
No, its truly just using Flash as the GUI and not the OS, in fact,
its even using the Flash Lite player, which less powerful than the
regular Flash runtime. Either way, Flash definitely won over java
for in-browser apps, but thats about it. The Flash runtime is
great, but it is very small and focused for in-browser apps and thats
it. Its not really even capable of doing desktop apps on its own,
though there are numerous 3rd Party wrappers for the flash player to
help out on this, but even then, its still not great. Its clearly
not what Flash was designed for. Adobe is trying to help in that
area with a product called Apollo to be out later this year, but
thats another story.
I didn't chime in the last thread, but for lots of reasons, many
related to the above, it wouldn't be useful for RB to have Flash as a
compile target. I would be happy to elaborate off list if anyone
really cares, since this is a bit off topic and I don't want to
contribute to noise on our revived list anymore than i already have.
-stephen
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