Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-07 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 05 May 2010 05:57:04 you wrote: Mea culpa. Everytime Flash plugin crashes and Firefox says Ooops, do you want me to send the info about this crash to Apple? How do you know it's not FireFox crashing ? -- Tom Chiverton Helping to greatly maximize virtual advanced interdependent

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-05 Thread Johannes Nel
i would like to chime in on this point. What restrictions are placed upon the SWF format? None so far as I know. You can take the spec and do whatever you want with it; including creating alternate IDEs and alternate players. You might be able to argue that it is not a standard in the same

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-05 Thread Oleg Sivokon
Sorry, cannot miss this one :) I think the tools we use to develop in Flash and Flex are way behind similar toolsets for other languages Please be specific, are you comparing Flash to Inkscape? Are you for real? I mean, if it's not Inkscape, then it should be Blend (but we are then back again to

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-05 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:57 AM, mitek17 wrote: Mea culpa. Everytime Flash plugin crashes and Firefox says Ooops, do you want me to send the info about this crash to Apple? I click on Yes, please. The question was what is factual wrong in Jobs message. To which I responded that the claim that

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-05 Thread Johannes Nel
With way behind I am referring to the whole eco-system : profiler (contains rant), crappy automated testing tools (qtp?) and docs about the api's for people trying to write their own (flex mokey) More comprehensive documentation on extending Flex builder API - helping people extend their tool

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-05 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Jeffry Houser wrote:  Very valid point!  Other than giving Adobe a feature request, any changes you introduce to the format would be unlikely to be read by the most popular swf player.  However, if you wanted to introduce a chance to HTML5; how would you do

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-05 Thread Oleg Sivokon
With way behind I am referring to the whole eco-system : profiler (contains rant), crappy automated testing tools (qtp?) and docs about the api's for people trying to write their own (flex mokey) More comprehensive documentation on extending Flex builder API - helping people extend their

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Gregor Kiddie
And this is the point the moderators should step in to shut this thread down. We've brought ourselves to the no it isn't, yes it is arguing point guys. Can we please let this thread die with a little dignity, and we can all jump in on the next one, unless someone wants to make a blog post

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Guy Morton
It's PUBLISHED. That's not the same as OPEN. Open formats, like SVG, are generally developed by a standards organisation, with input from any interested parties. Open formats, by definition, can be used without restriction by anyone. Proprietary formats, like Flash, are defined and controlled

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Oleg Sivokon
OK, I will say no more. We are really not reaching a decision here and not listening to each other, so, there's no point to continue.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread dorkie dork from dorktown
I think open and closed is too broad... and their definitions are moot. If anything Flash is a daywalker. A half breed. Its a creature of the night but it can exist during the day. It doesn't have to feed on human blood but you wouldn't want to be around him when he's hungry. especially on the

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Baz
I think open and closed is too broad... and their definitions are moot. If anything Flash is a daywalker. A half breed. Its a creature of the night but it can exist during the day. It doesn't have to feed on human blood but you wouldn't want to be around him when he's hungry. especially on

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Wally Kolcz
I am failing to see what the issue is on having a proprietary player is anyways. If the company is as devoted to making it better (as adobe seems to be with the whole flash platform experience) what is the issue? Most companies I know that product web/software products are closed and

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Clark Stevenson
I just dont care. I have never went out my way to support Mac, ever. I think i made a mac screensaver once. Sorry guys im just not interested in it. Lets buy an apple which doesnt run anything versus a pc which does everything you throw at it. No thanks. If iplatform wont support flash, then

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Baz
The best part is that HTML5 video is going to be based on H.264 - which is not only a proprietary codec, BUT COSTS MONEY! At least flash is free. Here's an excerpt of what happened with gif: The web in 1999 was a lot smaller than it is today, so a lot of people don’t remember what happened back

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Guy Morton
I love how people with little or no actual experience of the Mac platform apparently know what it can and can't do. I'm writing this on a an iMac that's running Mac OSX and Windows XP at the same time. Can your PC do that? That was a rhetorical question, by the way. If you don't see any

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Guy Morton
I agree that's a risk and would prefer to see some clear direction as to how patents covering h.264 will be enforced in the future. Flash decodes h.264 video so it will still get swept up in the same issues as HTML5 will, should those issues arise, so I don't see how Flash is the answer to

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Wbierwerth
HTC HD2 sold out in a matter of days since it hit the US, now verizon and ATT are advertising it. Has flash, and since jobs rant i am very interested, especaiily given Iphones poor connectivity into the business office world. I think my company would applaud if they cut out flash because

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Guy Morton
Where does it say that Apple is dropping support for plugins like Flash on Mac OSX? I can't see that happening. I can't even imagine how they'd do it if they wanted to. Guy On 03/05/2010, at 10:00 AM, Laurence wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton g...@... wrote:

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Gregor Kiddie
...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jeffry Houser Sent: 03 May 2010 16:04 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs First time I explicitly that Apple would prevent Flash from being installed on Macs. The specific rumor I heard was that the next version

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Gregor Kiddie
If we are swapping rumours though... I liked the one that Apple had demanded a truly ridiculous sum of money from Adobe yearly to allow Flash on the iPhone, and when Adobe refused to pay up, SJ made it his mission to prevent it from happening! I'd call it a tithe, but that brings far too

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Baz
There are 2 distinct and separate anti-Adobe issues from Apple. One is the anti-flash stance, which we have been focusing on in this thread - but a separate and important second issue is Apple disallowing *NATIVE* IPHONE BINARIES that are created using CS5:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Guy Morton
I think you meant ludicrous... lubricious |loōˈbri sh əs| (also lubricous |ˈloōbrikəs|) adjective 1 offensively displaying or intended to arouse sexual desire. 2 smooth and slippery with oil or a similar substance. :-) On 04/05/2010, at 1:04 AM, Jeffry Houser wrote: First time I explicitly

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-02 Thread Guy Morton
Jeez...it's *three* devices, and you *do* have a choice... You're annoyed because you're being shut out of a market you want to be in, but your arguments as to why you should be allowed into that market are specious. If you buy an iPod/Pad/Phone, you buy it as is, knowing what it can and can't

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-02 Thread Oleg Sivokon
mitek17 Yeah, I know that... well, I didn't say it's usable for commercial purposes. That's true it isn't. What I said is that, if it would matter more to Adobe these project exist and continue to develop, it would be better, for the image at least. Well, you know, MS doesn't really support

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-01 Thread Guy Morton
On 01/05/2010, at 1:54 PM, Amy wrote: It may be low, but there's a certain amount of logic to it, considering when Steve Jobs was out, he was given a liver transplant. In ancient times, the liver was considered to be the seat of anger. MPO is that there's been a lot of angry behavior coming

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-01 Thread Oleg Sivokon
@ mitek17 Erm... GNash? Why the heck do you need the player sources? You have the SWF specs - player is the program that plays SWF files, you can make your own... In fact, GNash does it already and is GNU program, the problem is flash.* (AS3) package which is a proprietary extension to

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Alex Harui
Global exception handling is in FP 10.1 and AIR 2.0. There should be better printing APIs in AIR 2.0 as well. These new features are not leveraged in the Flex framework because they were not committed until too late in our schedule for Flex 4.0, but they were committed before Jobs starting

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Battershall, Jeff
-Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of mitek17 Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 12:33 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Seth Caldwell w

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Alex Harui
There are no printing improvements in Flex 4. AIR 2.0 supposedly has some new APIs you can use instead of our print code and it might have landed in 10.1 but I haven’t verified. GEH is doc’d here:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Wally Kolcz
I get it, Steve, no Flash on iWhatever...now just shut up.. My job and life will move right along. Wasn't he supposed to be dead by now or something...or did he replace his cancer with a iBodyPart...what a douche. On 4/30/2010 11:50 AM, PFD Studio wrote: The talk about openness is

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
Oh dude, come on, that's low. Either agree or disagree with what he says (I agree with most of it - HTML5 et al can replace the need for a lot of what Flash often does, and it's support is growing and standards are good for all of us) but don't make it personal. Guy On 01/05/2010, at 5:17

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
On 01/05/2010, at 1:50 AM, PFD Studio wrote: The talk about openness is completely disingenuous. Flash/Flex/ActionScript is vastly more open than any of the relevant Apple technologies. How do you figure that HTML5 is less open than Flash? Moreover, what Jobs really wants is for

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Oleg Sivokon
mitek17 This is just a thought regarding matrix transformation applied to visual components in flex framework. Firstly, you cannot make it bindable, but not so fast... I find i perfect! Trying to animate flex components and make it smooth is a pain, especially because of binding and all the extra

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
On 01/05/2010, at 11:37 AM, Oleg Sivokon wrote: Guy Morton. I've said that before, he is not wrong, he's just serving the facts in a way that will most likely give you a wrong impression. He never says that h.264 codec is proprietary, but after reading what he says you may think it

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Angelo Anolin
: Amy amyblankens...@bellsouth.net To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, 30 April, 2010 20:54:20 Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs --- In flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com, Guy Morton g...@... wrote: Oh dude, come on, that's low. Either agree or disagree with what he