Maybe the major problem for Flex in the future is the Flash Player dependency. Some time ago I thought Adobe and Flash will be a solid platform, but nowadays we can not trust anymore in Adobe taking into account that from one day to another they shift objetives in such radikal way. Such change bring such consequences.
All about flex is great, and the Flash Player too, but I feel that if Adobe is the owner of a critical piece of the system is very dangerous. I'd love to see Flash Player and AIR donated to some foundation like Apache...that would change all the game. One thing I never understood was Adobe not helping to open source Flash Player or transforming it to help to be the industry standard. They they managed it is pushing the player to some uncertain future. Take a look to the recent problems with Chrome that make LocalConnection to break functionality. The other side of this story is browser rendering, and this bring other serious problems like fragmentation, inconsistences and poor technology (javascript) that would make each development day a hell on earth... Sometimes I think why web technologies are such problematic and why we don't have today some robust ecosystem free of flame and company wars... 2012/8/29 Michael A. Labriola <labri...@digitalprimates.net>: >>I had in mind writing in a subset of ActionScript that cross-compiles cleanly >>to JavaScript, which is basically the idea of FalconJS. But, not having >>worked on FalconJS, I never understood what it did with Flash classes like >>>Sprite that are implemented in native code in the player. > > The way HTML and Flex produce visual content and a component model are > different. However, and I have proven this using other languages which > cross-compile, if we can simply get a cross-compiler that can translate the > AS language (ignoring Flash Player classes) into the JS language, there is an > enormous amount we can do. It wouldn't mean magically using Flex in the > browser today, but it would set us up well for building on a next version > that respects the differences in the DOM between the two targets. > > It's not that HTML is less extensible, I used to think that too. It's that > HTML enforces a separation between form and function that we tried to > consider with Spark, but didn't make it far enough. Having solid AS to JS > support would make ActionScript a very relevant language outside of Flash > Player. > > Mike > -- Carlos Rovira Director de Tecnología M: +34 607 22 60 05 F: +34 912 35 57 77 CODEOSCOPIC S.A. Avd. del General Perón, 32 Planta 10, Puertas P-Q 28020 Madrid
