Flash, in order to die, HTML5 Canvas should live and be performant ; which is not what I see... BTW, do you really believe the Media ;) ?
I strongly agree with Rui ; in a way, every technology relies on another technology that has its own drawbacks. Let's focus on stuff. With a strong argumentation, we could ask or force Adobe to do something about the FP or even create a fork on the project if really necessary, but we are not here now ; let's keep it simple for the beginning 2012/1/10 Csomák Gábor <csom...@gmail.com> > sorry for starting a flame war. i just meant, that if flash really dies > (what is the purpose of the media), flex also. recreating it in javascript > is not an option. > i meant we need to show, that there is place for both flash and html5. the > two things is completely different. html5 has a canvas tag. so what? flash > has a webview component. > but if the people hear every day that flash is dead, they won't pay for a > flash ria, even if it would be faster, better, cheaper. please don't take > it as an offense, i'm not fighting, it was my toughs. I'm young, so i can > be wrong :) > > peace. > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Raju Bitter <rajubit...@googlemail.com > >wrote: > > > > This project should not, in my opinion, focus on the actual runtime > > except for the very specific cases > > > were it is absolutely necessary. I say that we deal with issues > > regarding runtime and language when > > > they appear letting the community decide how to best deal with them. > > Don't really agree with you here. Even Adobe started investigating > > JavaScript generation out of ActionScript code. If the creator of > > Flex, ActionScript and Flash investigate cross-compilation of > > ActionScript to JavaScript, why should Apache Flex ignore that > > approach? > > > > I see one of the chances of an Apache Flex versus Adobe Flex that the > > community can drive the project into a direction, where an HTML5 based > > runtime for Flex will be created. If you'd rather see that as a > > separate project next to Flex (e.g. Apache Falcon), that's of course > > an option. > > > > Is there any legally binding agreement between Apache Flex and Adobe > > that the company will always provide a runtime environment for Flash > > for the next 3-5 years? If not, Adobe can at any time pull the plug on > > - let's say - desktop browser Flash Player, and only offer AIR/mobile > > App generation out of ActionScript. > > > > Just my thoughts, I'm aware of the fact that quite a few people will not > > agree. > > > > - Raju > > >
