>Because people have no faith in Adobe... What scares the bejesus out of me is when I remember what happened to all Flashbuilder beta apps a couple of years back.
Is my phone going to suddenly go nuts with clients who's apps simultaneously stopped working cause somebody at adobe to into a twist and pulled the server? Seriously considering avoiding RSL's for the immediate future,,, Dan Pride --- On Mon, 2/27/12, Jeffry Houser <jef...@dot-com-it.com> wrote: > From: Jeffry Houser <jef...@dot-com-it.com> > Subject: Re: Flex -> HTML, Linux and time to say goodbye? > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Date: Monday, February 27, 2012, 8:36 AM > On 2/27/2012 8:02 AM, David Arno > wrote: > > As I'm sure most of you know, Adobe announced last > Wednesday that they were > > dumping their support for Flash on Linux. > That is inaccurate. It'll be supported in Chrome; and > if other browsers implement the new plugin API; those can be > supported to. > > > For people whose business is > > selling Flex apps to Linux users, this is of course > very bad news. > Do such people exist? > > > The future of the Flash player for Windows and Mac > seems as assured as > > everything can be when dealing with proprietary > systems. Likewise with Flex > > on AIR for iOS and Android. So what benefit would there > be in developing > > HTML5 targets for these OS's? > > Because people have no faith in Adobe; and want Flex to > outlive a dependency on a proprietary runtime. > > -- Jeffry Houser > Technical Entrepreneur > 203-379-0773 > -- > http://www.flextras.com?c=104 > UI Flex Components: Tested! Supported! Ready! > -- > http://www.theflexshow.com > http://www.jeffryhouser.com > http://www.asktheflexpert.com > -- > Part of the DotComIt Brain Trust > >
