I can understand that. I don't agree with it but I can understand it. What I fail to understand is why so little on AIR. I'm creating applications(not games but enterprise and consumer applications) on mobile and desktop using Flex and AIR and it is just wonderful to work with. There is no alternative that even comes close to achieving these types of results.
Fréderic Cox On 15/05/13 16:22, "Lee Burrows" <subscripti...@leeburrows.com> wrote: >I thought it was very telling that the word "Flash" was avoided during >the Max keynote - it only got a single mention in passing as something >like "our aquisition of Macromedia". I predict zero Flash-based sessions >next year. > >On 15/05/2013 14:10, mike_l_mcconn...@lamd.uscourts.gov wrote: >> I worry less about the message than I do the motivation behind the push >> towards HTML5. It still makes no sense to me from a developer's >> perspective, though I've tried very hard to understand it. "Standards >> based" or not, HTML5 is inferior technology when compared to what can be >> delivered with Flash and AIR (and the ease with which it can be done >>using >> development environments like Flex). Users don't know or care about the >> runtime environment in which their applications run, nor should they. >>This >> isn't really about users, though. It's not about the web. It's not >>about >> getting behind a "standard". What it's about is creating demand for >> products that make the difficult task of developing in >>HTML/CSS/JavaScript >> a bit more palatable. And where there's demand, there's profit >> (theoretically, anyway). I don't believe for a minute that this is some >> noble "drive the web forward" initiative. That's only the veneer. The >> true goal, in my not so humble opinion, is what it always is and always >> will be: enhancing the bottom line. There's certainly nothing wrong >>with a >> company making money....it's why they exist, after all. But to tout >>what >> is clearly a less suitable solution (for RIAs) as the next great >>frontier >> is, at best, disingenuous. These are my opinions...your mileage may >>vary. >> >> M. McConnell >> >> >> >> >> From: Lee Burrows <subscripti...@leeburrows.com> >> To: users@flex.apache.org >> Date: 05/15/2013 06:15 AM >> Subject: Re: future of flash (yes, that old chestnut again) >> >> >> >> Thanks Alex. >> >> I appreciate your comments - with the 5 year commitment from Adobe, and >> FlexJS on the horizon, i can relax (a bit). >> >> I just worry about your employers sometimes. At Max 2011, the message >> was "use HTML5 for RIAs", and shortly afterwards mobile Flash Player was >> dropped. At Max 2013, the message was "use HTML5 for games" - which made >> me wonder what bombshell Adobe may drop this time. >> >> -- >> Lee Burrows >> ActionScripter >> >> >> >> On 14/05/2013 20:29, Alex Harui wrote: >>> The relevant documents are: >>> [1] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html >>> [2] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html >>> >>> It is [2] that mentions "five years". >>> >>> But realize that, to the best of my knowledge, there is no code that >>>will >>> cause Flash to stop working after some day about 4 years from now. To >>>do >> so >>> would "break the web" and neither Adobe nor the major desktop/laptop OS >>> vendors are interested in doing that. It is just that Adobe is not >>> committing to new versions or taking support calls after that date. >> Also, >>> IMO, if something happens that gives Adobe a reason to extend that >>>date, >>> they probably would, but I don't really know what that would be. >>> >>> Meanwhile, Apache Flex is doing the best it can to make sure that Flex >> has >>> fewer bugs, supports more locales, etc. And some of us are even >>>looking >>> into a next generation of Flex that will let you use MXML and >> ActionScript >>> to create apps that run in a browser or on mobile devices without >> Flash/AIR >>> so you don't have be quite so concerned about this "five year" >> commitment. >>> On 5/14/13 11:12 AM, "Lee Burrows" <subscripti...@leeburrows.com> >>>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I seem to remember that Adobe committed to supporting Flash Player and >>>> AIR for 5 years - during, or shortly after, the Flex Community Summit >>>> (of Dec 11). >>>> >>>> Is that right, or did i imagine it? - i cant find any reference to it >>>>on >>>> adobe.com >> >> >> >> > > >-- >Lee Burrows >ActionScripter >
