On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Saul DIaz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Om > > There is a big road btw Air 2.6 and Air 4.0 . And this don't means adobe is > supporting linux it means apache flex is still supporting linux. > > The article never said that they are not supporting pepper, they are > definitely doing it. But pepper plugin only supports chrome, is true that > Mozilla don't have any intention to work in pepper (shame Mozilla) , the > last version you can get working except chrome is 11.2 (which I am ok for > now) > > Agreed, which why is why I said the title is misleading. There are a lot of subtleties here and I wanted to make things a bit clearer. Yes, Apache Flex is definitely not abandoning Linux, which I wanted to highlight here. We have fixed the bits in the Flex SDK that prevented backwards compatibility. Thanks, Om > > regards > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of OmPrakash > Muppirala > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 1:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Ahhh Adobe... > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Saul DIaz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/adobe-abandons-linux/10418 > > > > They already abandoned linux so is not really fully cross platform > > anymore and there is barely any mention of linux in the roadmap :D > > > > I can't wait to flexjs to catch up. > > > > They are throwing heavy support behind phonegap (was expected) > > > > > Misleading title for the article. > > FTA, Adobe has worked with Google to support Pepper Plugin API which brings > Flash Player to Linux [1] > > As for AIR, Apache Flex 4.12 still supports AIR 2.6. So, there is nothing > preventing anyone from building AIR apps for Linux today. > > Thanks, > Om > > [1] > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/chromium#Adobe_Flash_Player_.28Pepper_p > lugin_API.29 > > > > > saul > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lee Burrows [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 1:02 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Ahhh Adobe... > > > > We're about half way through adobes promise to support flash player > > and air for 5 years - so abandonment shouldnt be a problem for a while > > yet (fingers crossed). > > > > On 27/03/2014 18:24, Steve Lewis wrote: > > > Unless I'm missing something here or this is all "read between the > lines" > > > chatter, where does Adobe indicate/imply they will not continue to > > > support AIR? We all knew PhoneGap was going to be part of their > > > future in some capacity. I don't think it necessarily means they are > > going > > to abandon AIR. > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Alain Ekambi [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 1:45 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: Ahhh Adobe... > > > > > > @Cadu > > > > > > There is this illusion that HTML/CSS/JS is "easy" to do. > > > But as requirements change, the codebase grows and the team becomes > > > bigger then you start seeing the pain of pure JS development. > > > > > > I m mainting a 5 years old web application. > > > I wish HTML/CSS/JS was easy to do. > > > > > > Things like "I want to find where this method is getting called" > > > becomes almost impossible to do. > > > I mean there is a reason why the best companies when it comes to > > > web based development (Google, Microsoft,etc,,) are cross compiling > > > to JS (GWT, DART, TypeScript, Sharkpit) or have some tools of top of > > > it(Closure Compiler) > > > > > > > > > The problem is that at most company people making decisions have > > > never wrote a single line of code. > > > > > > Atleast Adobe should have supported both platforms and give people > > > the choice. > > > They have the money for that. > > > > > > Back in the days I was so exited to follow Adobe Evangelists(Blog, > > > Twitter, etc) Always something to learn. > > > You could feel the excitement about what they do. > > > > > > Today they post picutures of Cooking, Football , stuff like that. > > > > > > Dont get me wrong. > > > It s their free time. > > > They can do whatever they want. > > > > > > But it s sad. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Lee Burrows > > ActionScripter > > > > > > > >
