Great story! On Feb 28, 2013, at 5:56 PM, Fréderic Cox wrote:
> At the company I work we have a sales application that runs on Mac + Win + > iPad, it could even run on an Android tablet. And it is the same code .. > That is what I call flexible. It works great for us and I know it works > great for other companies as well. We are also create Mac/Win desktop apps > this way for our clients. In that area HTML5 can do nothing, absolutely > nothing compared to Flex/AIR. Only for websites I believe HTML is better > but than it also comes with cross browser issues. So for productivity > Flex/AIR is also much better. And we create our websites in HTML here and > our apps in Flex/AIR. Guess who is the least frustrated here, HTML > developers or me? It just works here for me :-) My boss asked for a simple > HTML application where a tree would grow after playing a video. We created > it in HTML, tested in browser and was working fine. Then tested it on iPad > and it was REALLY slow (but using Canvas for drawing and using an animated > gif). One animated gif worked fine but we needed three separate gifs and > that just didn't work smoothly at all. Spend 2-3 days on it. We needed it > the next day, so in the evening I created it from scratch in Flex and > created an iPad app. My boss again was shown how for cutting edge projects > you need Flash/AIR, not HTML at the moment. > > Fréderic Cox > > > > > On 28/02/13 16:37, "Russell Warren" <r...@perspexis.com> wrote: > >> Regarding comments about Flex on mobile, I'll chime in with a variant on >> this. I personally don't care much about Flex on "mobile" (ie: phones), >> but am definitely interested in Flex on tablets. I separate the two, >> although I think most don't due to the often similar hardware and OS. >> >> Flex is excellent for enterprise (as often stated) and we're heavily >> invested in it... and this is as a newcomer to Flex in the last year or >> so, >> which may be of interest to some. >> >> However, 'enterprise' used to mean 'controlled environments using desktop >> PCs', but these days there is a lot of increased tablet use, especially by >> execs, in the enterprise space. We haven't crossed that bridge yet, but >> don't realistically expect to get much of a code base ported from the >> desktop Flex apps over to the tablet space. One can hope, of course, but >> I >> expect that when it comes time for tablet apps we'll be porting a lot of >> code. Time will tell, and we'll be certainly trying out AIR on that day, >> but performance expectations for tablets are low based on the few demos >> we've played with. This only marginally affects our enthusiasm for Flex >> on >> the desktop... rewriting code for different platforms is the norm these >> days, but from a desktop/os/browser portability perspective, >> Flex/AS3/Flash >> just can't be beat. Plus it's awesome (no matter what the unfortunate >> state of public opinion/awareness is). >> >> We're sticking with Flex for a while yet. >> >> Russ > >
