The mission for Adobe is to help developers deliver contents to any devices
without limitations. Therefore, you get the opportunity to create contents
for WP7, iPhone and other devices not capable of Flash-enabled. Both HTML5
and Flash will share similarities performance since both will be using GPU
for graphics acceleration.
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Johannes Nel johannes@gmail.comwrote:
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http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/11/your-questions-about-flex.html
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote:
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I think the only thing you should draw from this announcement is that
Adobe has given up on trying to support flash as a browser plugin on
mobile devices. I think they have seen that a) performance is an issue they
may struggle to fix while maintaining compatibility and b) there is market
resistance to plugins on mobile platforms (see the Windows 8 Metro
plugin-less IE as the final domino to fall there).
Flash is now in decline as a plugin technology. It will continue for a
good few years yet, but it is trending downwards. Because its life as a
plugin is drawing to an end, Adobe is seeking to reshape Flash as an
app-building tool. This makes perfect sense, and if they do it well, they
could manage to make an army of Flash/flex developers into app developers,
which is not all bad.
Adobe has read the writing on the wall and is putting a lot of effort
into re-shaping themselves as the tool provider for HTML5. Certainly there
is a need for great tools in this area, so I hope they succeed in doing
this.
Also, you might note with interest their purchase of nitobi, who make
PhoneGap.
Guy
On 13/11/2011, at 1:56 AM, e_val_soft wrote:
I'd like to understand more about Adobe's latest annnouncement that they
will focus on HTML5 on mobile platforms(rather than Flash).
Obviously a kick in the head for flex/air developers targetting
applications that need or want a mobile client because mobile platform
manufacturers will drop Flash (in a flash) from their product plans.
I've seen some mixed messages - Adobe's version which is just a change in
focus while the industry reads it like a Flash obituary. Here are two
bullets from Adobe's announcement:
--from Adobe.com
•Shifting resources to support even greater investment in HTML5, through
tools like Adobe® Dreamweaver, Adobe Edge and PhoneGap, recently added
through the acquisition of Nitobi
•Focusing Flash resources on delivering the most advanced PC web
experiences, including gaming and premium video, as well as mobile apps
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I can almost see them sitting around the board room table debating
whether to stick that , as well as mobile apps on the end of bullet 2
just to leave people like us (Flex developers I mean) confused. Pretend
you're a Samsung or Motorola executive planning the next release of your
latest mobile device. Do we spend $10 million and 40 developers integrating
Flash?
Since the vast majority of new, innovative applications involve
incorporation or embracing of mobile clients, Flash's ubiquity, which
is/was its greatest selling point, is gone. I mean when Jobs took a stand
to ban Flash from iOS - that was a phaser blast to the holodeck, but
this...this is a photon torpedo to the bridge.
Am I reading this wrong, or should I be starting my new HTML5 career now?
I mean once flash is gone from mobile, it is gone as a general web
application framework so forget those desktop focused applications too,
except some specialized graphics oriented apps.
I think of what I'm developing now on Flex and it would be years away
from possible with HTML5 but maybe I should be focusing on HTML5 plus one
of the better JavaScript frameworks?
I'm really looking for some opinions here about what flex developers
think of the near term future based on this announcement. It'd be great to
hear some Adobe employee perspectives (probably on gag order) but anyone
with some insight, please do tell. I'd love to be told I'm exaggerating the
consequence of the announcement
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j:pn
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