Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Nigel Hillier
I have approx. 1000 days invested in flex programming Is there any point in continuing, if the security reputation is so poor that users have almost no choice but to uninstall ( or run it only on equipment disconnected from real life, surrounded by firewalls, moats, Doberman dogs ) For

RE: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Nigel Hillier
http://www.ketv.com/money/firefox-blocks-flash-and-facebook-calls-for-its-de ath/34154590 If I uninstall flash from my dev machine to protect it . (which has all manner of passwords, confidential data etc, just like yours, I guess?) it makes it rather difficult to continue as a flex dev

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Angelo Lazzari
Tom, you're right but this news is breaking in every tech/dev blog and people who is not in IT world will keep in mind only the bad part of this situation: Flash is dangerous for your computer security Probably firstly Adobe and everyone of us should publicize the responsive concept you

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Alain Ekambi
Bottom line is : As much as it s sad to admit. Interest in Flash based solutions(atleast web based one) is fading away rapidly. Even the Flex framework is more focusing to target HTML/CSS/JS than leveraging the Flash player. As someone who is still selling Flash based tools the future of Flash

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Tom Chiverton
This news was 'breaking' yesterday, my time. Today, my time, Adobe have fixed everything; non story - as I hope you are leaving in all those 'IT bloggers' comments sections :-) Tom On 15/07/15 10:44, Angelo Lazzari wrote: Surely this breaking news is gold

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Scott Matheson
Hi The fact that there is a security issue in flash is not new, in fact they are security issue with almost all technology all the time, the real issue us the speed that these issue are fixed There are those in the industry that would like to see the end of flash, long live HTML5, this is

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Angelo Lazzari
Yep!! would be great to link a official response of Adobe in our comments... however i posted the new release version link... Thanks Angelo El mié., 15 jul. 2015 a las 12:10, Tom Chiverton (t...@extravision.com) escribió: This news was 'breaking' yesterday, my time. Today, my time, Adobe have

RE: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Kessler CTR Mark J
There is still is strong support for Flex. Flex has the ability to target Flash, Air, captive / native apps, and soon HTML5 (making great progress). Even with the occasional the sky is falling comment about flash, you will still have options for quite some time. -Mark

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Tomislav Pokrajcic
Well, HackingTeam company, the source of all the mess that happened these days is actually using Flex for building their user interfaces. https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-console https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-console-library Not sure about what they think about Flash, but it seems that

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Scott Matheson
LoL It is all about sales There is no truth in the world Sent from my iPhone On 15 Jul 2015, at 13:26, Tomislav Pokrajcic tomis...@svemir.net wrote: Well, HackingTeam company, the source of all the mess that happened these days is actually using Flex for building their user interfaces.

Re: Problem with building resources

2015-07-15 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
Try removing \bin from the FLEX_HOME variable. On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:08 PM, mark goldin markzolo...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a fragment of my CompileResourceBundles.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? project name=PrismResources basedir=. default=all taskdef resource=flexTasks.tasks

Re: Problem with building resources

2015-07-15 Thread mark goldin
It looks like this now: property name=FLEX_HOME value=C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4.7 (64 Bit)\sdks\4.13.0/ But still the same. On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:13 PM OmPrakash Muppirala bigosma...@gmail.com wrote: Try removing \bin from the FLEX_HOME variable. On Wed, Jul 15, 2015

Problem with building resources

2015-07-15 Thread mark goldin
Here is a fragment of my CompileResourceBundles.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? project name=PrismResources basedir=. default=all taskdef resource=flexTasks.tasks classpath=C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4.7 (64 Bit)\sdks\4.13.0\ant\lib\flexTasks.jar/ property

FileReference download fails in Chrome PAPPI

2015-07-15 Thread Jason Taylor
Please see: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?can=2start=0num=100q=colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Stars%20ReleaseBlock%20Cr%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modifiedgroupby=sort=id=508261 Currently downloading files is offline for most of our users, as chrome has always been our

Re: Can't get Flex binding to work without warnings

2015-07-15 Thread kamcknig
That worked, thanks! Kyle McKnight Senior UI Engineer - Accesso 602.515.1444 (M) On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:35 PM, pkumar.flex [via Apache Flex Users] ml-node+s246n10759...@n4.nabble.com wrote: Use proper type casting of repeater current item as (deRep.currentItem as XML) On Wed, Jul

Re: Can't get Flex binding to work without warnings

2015-07-15 Thread kamcknig
That got rid of the warnings! Hopefully it still works correctly, I'll have to test it out. Thanks so much! Kyle McKnight Senior UI Engineer - Accesso 602.515.1444 (M) On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Alex Harui [via Apache Flex Users] ml-node+s246n10757...@n4.nabble.com wrote: Try:

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread flex
I'd say it's better than it's ever been because of the continued work on it by Adobe which has still been adding more features. I've had to do a whole lot more html5 work since 2011 because of the perception and I'm amazed by the fact that all of the JavaScript frameworks are basically just

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread flex
I have been trying to find time to cross compile the chrome source using flascc so we could run all of this JavaScript in the runtime too so there's html6 for you :) I was thinking it would be great if they would rebrand as Swift or something similar just so the Flash keyword wasn't so harped

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Matthew Weir
I remember back in the late 90's Javascript was branded as evil and insecure... then they relabeled it HTML5 :)    I move that we relabel flashplayer to HTML6. Bam! On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 10:16 AM, f...@dfguy.us f...@dfguy.us wrote: I'd say it's better than it's ever been

RE: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Saul DIaz
Nigel, Flash still have 90%+ of penetration. I just uninstalled by firefox. Which had 91 security advisories last year. This year it's @ 71, and it's only July. -Original Message- From: Nigel Hillier [mailto:nigel555...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 2:18 AM

Re: Can't get Flex binding to work without warnings

2015-07-15 Thread kamcknig
Thanks for the explanation! Kyle Kyle McKnight Senior UI Engineer - Accesso 602.515.1444 (M) On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Alex Harui [via Apache Flex Users] ml-node+s246n1077...@n4.nabble.com wrote: The principle is that the compiler always assumes the binding expression is an

Re: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread Phil Gottfried
The logic behind the kill flash plugin is flawed. Apply the logic to operating systems, should we call for a ban of windows, andriod or osx? Lot of software has been found to result in exploits. Maybe we should have a call to ban php and html too since one needs to follow best practices to

Re: Can't get Flex binding to work without warnings

2015-07-15 Thread Alex Harui
The principle is that the compiler always assumes the binding expression is an object/property chain, but tries to use type information when possible. Repeater.currentItem is typed as Object, so the binding subsystem will look for change events that Objects use. But if you know the type is not

RE: Flex/Flash Viable still?

2015-07-15 Thread flex
I actually don't even use Firefox anymore, which is too bad since it was the original browser I used to debug because of the firebug, gasp, plugin! David -Original Message- From: Saul DIaz cripito...@gmail.com To: users@flex.apache.org Sent: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 9:29 AM Subject: RE: