+5 ;-)
Northing's black & white, and a lot was/is driven by pure and egoistic
interests of some big companies that only care about "shareholder value"
and growth; and forget their customers about it.
I like to have choices and attempt to use what is best for the actual
job. This can be AS3/AIR/FLEX/FlexJS, Java, ... or JS; with whatever
additional libs/framework (Typscript, AngularJS, JQuery, ...).
I'm happy with what apache is doing; and how well e.g. Flex is maintained.
Adding AS3/AIR and FLASH would make me feel much more comfortable than I
feel right now ;-)
Am 22.08.2015 um 09:43 schrieb OmPrakash Muppirala:
Can't we use both? Why pick one and kill the other one?
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Me.Com <and...@leapingbytes.net> wrote:
Flash used to be the only game in town. Now, there is nothing that Flash
can do which could not be done by JS. Maybe if Adobe open source Flash
Player… the community can resolve all the security and performance issues
that Flash is synonymous with… but it will require time… and it still will
not answer the fundamental question - why bother? Yes… there are number of
Flash applications which some company rely on… but no one can argue that
there are enough of these to justify keeping flash around. Sorry… if your
business relies on flash… you will get burn. Better accept it ASAP and
develop plan B.
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On August 21, 2015 at 19:36:05 , core000 (kaushal.sha...@gmail.com) wrote:
Alex, let me first say that I commend you and your team on the effort on
maturing the FlexJS platform. However, from watching the videos from you
and your team on the overview and progress of Flex JS, the tone sounds one
of defeat. e.g. "transitioning to Flex JS will not convert all the AS
code, but atleast you do not have to do everything from scratch in JS".As
the mention of Flash on the Adobe site gets more rare each time I visit, I
don't see where Flash plays in Adobe's strategy anymore. Suggestion 1:
Why not convince Adobe to make the Flash Player open source and hand it
over
to Apache? I'm not sure why they would want to hold on to it. I own a tech
firm in NYC and all of my platforms that I build for my clients are in
Flex,
which they are thrilled about. Having to wait for Flex JS to mature and
semi-learning a new language does not seem the best way forward. Acquiring
Flash Player will ensure that the plugin consistently is patched (like OSX,
Windows,IOS, Android) and let us continue to mature our current
apps.Suggestion 2: From the time in 2011 when Steve Jobs attacked Flash,
it's been down hill for the Flex platform. Recently, you have Facebook
asking for the death to Flash. Why would they want something that their
platform does not even depend on to be decommissioned? And Kevin Lynch,
the father of Flash from Macromedia, now works at Apple. I sense something
fishy is going on. Also, my team and I have also researched HTML5/JS.
Besides a few good libraries like D3.js, I'm not sure what the hype is
about. Most of the features are not available in all browsers, JS
libraries pop up and die out, and the look and feel (e.g. jQuery) is
outdated. It feels like the 90's all over again. We must put effort in
socializing Flash/Flex benefits again. Perhaps having Flex vs. HTML5 sites
up to showcase how far ahead of the game Flex is.I'm confident that many in
the Flex community are concerned that any day Flash Player will be
decommissioned and that will put most of us (many in huge corporations) in
a
bind. Adobe seems to be a company that can buckle under pressure.What are
your (and the community here) thoughts? Thanks,Core000
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