Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Newsletters Bag
Ahahahahahahah! Beatrix Krümmer-Frau ha scritto: Steve Jobs will be dead before Flash - don't worry. *Beatrix Kruemmer-Frau* Dipl. Ing. Designer|CEH-LPIG-1 Flash/Flex Developer Network Security Administrator Blog http://www.blog.dieanstalt.com Twitter http://twitter.com/Birikini Xing

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Cedric Muller
Right now I'm more of the opinion that rolling your eyes and moving on is the right thing to do. +1 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
**Did he really post that? I am hoping you are referring to the grey hairs on Steve's head and not a man on a mission. O.o Karl On Apr 30, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Newsletters Bag wrote: Ahahahahahahah! Beatrix Krümmer-Frau ha scritto: Steve Jobs will be dead before Flash - don't worry.

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Cedric Muller
that's a fact :) (not about the man on mission or the hair, but about the air Jobs has, which isn't AIR btw) **Did he really post that? I am hoping you are referring to the grey hairs on Steve's head and not a man on a mission. O.o Karl On Apr 30, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Newsletters Bag

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Paul Andrews
On 29/04/2010 23:45, Beatrix Krümmer-Frau wrote: Steve Jobs will be dead before Flash - don't worry. *Beatrix Kruemmer-Frau* Dipl. Ing. Designer|CEH-LPIG-1 Flash/Flex Developer Network Security Administrator Bloghttp://www.blog.dieanstalt.com Twitterhttp://twitter.com/Birikini

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Jim Andrews
html 5 has an audio api. you can play sounds. you can show controls like in a video. or not. now there's an honest audio api. no irrelevant things like being able to tell how far into the sound we are. or responsiveness to cue points. or being able to tell when a sound ends. no byteArray

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Ouch my side hurts. On Apr 30, 2010, at 2:46 AM, Jim Andrews wrote: perhaps html 7 will be really good. when will that be? Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread tom rhodes
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/04/quake_ii_runs_on_html5.html http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/04/quake_ii_runs_on_html5.htmlseems that html5 isn't as crappy as some people are making out. On 30 April 2010 09:50, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Ouch my side

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Beatrix Krümmer-Frau
Its not about health problems, but a metaphor - we will see who/what lives longer! We all are the ones who made/make Flash expanding its possibilities! Make jokes, keep working - We think different! *Beatrix Kruemmer-Frau* Dipl. Ing. Designer|CEH-LPIG-1 Flash/Flex Developer Network Security

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Hmmm.. good rebuttal. I am an old Quake 2 fan. But my comment was more because my side did hurt after reading that. I personally invite HTML 5. I remember when I was starting to learn Flash, I thought to myself, Why doesn't HTML already do this stuff? So bring it on, HTML 5, 6, 7 - 200 Karl

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Cedric Muller
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/04/ quake_ii_runs_on_html5.html http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/04/ quake_ii_runs_on_html5.htmlseems that html5 isn't as crappy as some people are making out. ever tried to run it on an iPhone, or best: iPad ? :)

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Jim Andrews
i see the html quake is not actually available to play in the browser. and game sound is fairly simple programming. at least in this game. html 5 has a very very basic audio api. it is not adequate for my purposes. in an ideal situation we would use open tools built to open standards. what

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
some thoughts, point-by-point http://www.thefieldcomic.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-just-blew-up-the-internet/ http://www.thefieldcomic.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-just-blew-up-the-internet/ a On 30 April 2010 10:46, Jim Andrews j...@vispo.com wrote: i see the html quake is not actually available

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Well if you can run a game like Quake II inside HTML 5, then HTML 5 should handle flash without a plugin. Karl Sent from losPhone On Apr 30, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Hmmm.. good rebuttal. I am an old Quake 2 fan. But my comment was more because my

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread W.R. de Boer
Well, it's using WebGL as far as I can remember which by my knowledge not every browser supports yet and it's even less which is basically web-version of OpenGL. Of course, you can then make Quake 2 8)7. I mean all nicely hardware accelerated by the GPU. Neither do I know of Internet Explorer 9

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Jer Brand
He talks about Flash being yesterday's tech, but that statement makes me wonder if he's ever coded in Objective-C. LOL! Okay, that got me. I'm glad someone else sees Objective-C for the mess it is. Thanks for that. ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread mika
Havent read the full thread, but i guess this is on topic : Adobe and Apple CEO's Square Off Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen sits down with Alan Murray and fires back at Steve Jobs in latest round of flash fight.

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Jer Brand
Not to drag out this conversation, but I think Apple doing this is a good thing in the end, probably for both companies. If you've been following the Adobe people on twitter, you see their talk has gone from iPhone, iPhone iPhone to Android, Android, Android (with a little iPhone hate mixed in).

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Yousif Masoud
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Jer Brand thejhe...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, sorry once again, rambling done. Jer ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders My turn

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
**Whipes sweat from brow** I hear you Beatrix. Time will tell. Karl On Apr 30, 2010, at 3:07 AM, Beatrix Krümmer-Frau wrote: Its not about health problems, but a metaphor - we will see who/what lives longer! We all are the ones who made/make Flash expanding its possibilities! Make jokes,

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Anthony Pace
On 4/29/2010 10:18 AM, David Hunter wrote: i know there has already been a lot of talk about flash and iphones/ipads and developer agreements on this list and i don't wish to add unnecessarily or stoke up the fire again but i thought this might be a worthwhile read for all from the man at the

RE: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Pace [anthony.p...@utoronto.ca] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 8:16 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash After complaining for years that developers needed access

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread eric dolecki GMail
To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash After complaining for years that developers needed access to the raw audio data from the mic, that we are just finally seeing progress in 10.1. The lack of feature support in their tools, the bugs they have had

RE: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
[edole...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 9:14 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash I think its time to read what you wrote yourself as you've authored some inaccuracies yourself in regards to Apple working with Adobe, the whole flavors of C

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Matt S.
In addition, Flash has not performed well on mobile devices. We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We have never seen it. isn't this just utter B.S.? ___ Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Glen Pike
I think some of his comments about Flash not being designed for Touch devices have a ring of truth to them, for example, I develop for a touchscreen system and have written many custom components without rollovers. I can't really comment on battery life, web-video, etc. because I do all my

RE: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
Funny, Jobs makes no mention of Silverlight anywhere in that article. :) Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Learning Performance Solutions Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community and visit our Instructional Technology Design Blog (note: these are for Bank of America

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Glen Pike
What's Silverlight? On 29/04/2010 15:51, Merrill, Jason wrote: Funny, Jobs makes no mention of Silverlight anywhere in that article. :) Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Learning Performance Solutions Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community and visit our

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
I think that's a new-fangled fishing lure used for freshwater carp or something. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Glen Pike g...@engineeredarts.co.ukwrote: What's Silverlight? On 29/04/2010 15:51, Merrill, Jason wrote: Funny, Jobs makes no mention of Silverlight anywhere in that article.

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Paul Andrews
On 29/04/2010 15:51, Merrill, Jason wrote: Funny, Jobs makes no mention of Silverlight anywhere in that article. :) If he's talking specifically about Flash, why would he? Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Learning Performance Solutions Join the Bank of America Flash

RE: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
If he's talking specifically about Flash, why would he? Switched off your irony detector today? Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Learning Performance Solutions Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community and visit our Instructional Technology Design Blog (note: these

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Glen Pike
I thought it was an elven character from LOTR? On 29/04/2010 16:15, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: I think that's a new-fangled fishing lure used for freshwater carp or something. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Glen Pikeg...@engineeredarts.co.ukwrote:

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
this basically sums up why apple don't support flash Another Adobe claim is that Apple devices cannot play Flash games. This is true. Fortunately, there are over 50,000 games and entertainment titles on the App Store, and many of them are free. in other words 'we don't want you to play flash

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Paul Andrews
On 29/04/2010 16:17, Merrill, Jason wrote: If he's talking specifically about Flash, why would he? Switched off your irony detector today? All detectors switched off by extreme fatigue right now. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Learning Performance Solutions

RE: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Andrew Murphy
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: April 29, 2010 10:41 am To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash I think some of his comments about Flash not being designed for Touch devices have a ring of truth to them

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Micky Hulse
I would love to see a Thoughts on Apple letter from Adobe. :) ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Micky Hulse
I would love to see a Thoughts on Apple letter from Adobe. :) This is close enough: http://mashable.com/2010/04/29/jon-stewart-apple/ :D ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Dave Watts
this basically sums up why apple don't support flash Another Adobe claim is that Apple devices cannot play Flash games. This is true. Fortunately, there are over 50,000 games and entertainment titles on the App Store, and many of them are free. in other words 'we don't want you to play

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Glen Pike
Pity it's US only, would have been nice to see, but it's not from Adobe though! Apple have thrown down the gauntlet - it may be FUD, but it's from Steve Jobs / Apple and that's better than any speculation from other sources. I guess I would like to see Adobe be able to respond to this

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Zeh Fernando
The problem is that pretty much all of that has already been responded to a while ago. Steve Jobs is only repeating what has already been echoing among people who want to rationalize the fact that iP* doesn't have Flash, like this stupid rollover/hover discussion. If Adobe is to respond to that,

RE: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
He talks about Flash being yesterday's tech, but that statement makes me wonder if he's ever coded in Objective-C. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Learning Performance Solutions Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community and visit our Instructional Technology Design

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Kerry Thompson
Zeh Fernando wrote: Right now I'm more of the opinion that rolling your eyes and moving on is the right thing to do. Me too. I don't have the time to spare just now, but if I did, I'd be writing Android apps. I see a whole lot of upside there for Flash programmers. Cordially, Kerry Thompson

RE: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
Right now I'm more of the opinion that rolling your eyes and moving on is the right thing to do. I'll third that. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Learning Performance Solutions Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community and visit our Instructional Technology

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Carl Welch
And here is the TRUE reason Apple wants to kill flash: Apple may charge $1 million to display mobile ads: report http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63S0IE20100429 On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: Right now I'm more of the opinion

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Brian Mays
On 4/29/10 2:35 PM, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: Right now I'm more of the opinion that rolling your eyes and moving on is the right thing to do. I'll third that. I've been preaching at our company to continue to do Flash graphics for our news site. But those

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Jim Andrews
Does HTML 5 do anything about the basically non-existant audio API in HTML? I gather that the canvas tag was Apple's proposal. How does it compare with the graphical abilities of Flash or Director? Microsoft has not implemented the canvas tag. Is the canvas tag in the W3C HTML 5 spec? And

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
The best thing for Adobe to do right now is get flash player up to STELLAR performance, even by Apples standards and then refuse to put it on the iPhone. That would just be funny. When flash is benchmarking html5 under the table, then adobe will have some barganing chips if you will. I

RE: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread David Hunter
is in everything except IE. From: j...@vispo.com To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:06:46 -0700 Does HTML 5 do anything about the basically non-existant audio API in HTML? I gather that the canvas tag

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Zeh Fernando
Mobile and desktop performance is already above and beyond what HTML5 can do: http://themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2010/03/22/ http://vimeo.com/10553088 Touch events/gestures/points are supported by FP 10.1 so I'm pretty sure we'll have a way to see whether any of those are actually

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
@Zeh Thanks for the links. Good to know. I have investied a LOT of time in flash, as have many others. :) Karl On Apr 29, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Zeh Fernando wrote: Mobile and desktop performance is already above and beyond what HTML5 can do:

Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Beatrix Krümmer-Frau
Steve Jobs will be dead before Flash - don't worry. *Beatrix Kruemmer-Frau* Dipl. Ing. Designer|CEH-LPIG-1 Flash/Flex Developer Network Security Administrator Blog http://www.blog.dieanstalt.com Twitter http://twitter.com/Birikini Xing http://www.xing.com/profile/Beatrix_KruemmerFrau LinkenID

RE: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread David Hunter
from Steve Jobs on Flash Steve Jobs will be dead before Flash - don't worry. *Beatrix Kruemmer-Frau* Dipl. Ing. Designer|CEH-LPIG-1 Flash/Flex Developer Network Security Administrator Blog http://www.blog.dieanstalt.com Twitter http://twitter.com/Birikini Xing http://www.xing.com

RE: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)
Ha ha http://topherchris.com/post/558594718 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders