Re: Cross-compiling Flex to HTML5/Javascript (Was : Update on Falcon donation)

[Alex Harui]

On 8/29/12 5:51 PM, "ysma...@yahoo.com" <ysma...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> My perhaps naive vision of what FalconJS would do (at least in the first
> version), was that it would grab some kind of HTML5 canvas element; and do
> everything in that rectangle: all drawing and event handling would occur in
> that element. It's a 'simple' way to put a foot in the door of the HTML5
> world. Well, I know that almost nothing is really simple. But it may be the
> simplest way. Sorry if you guys had all that figured out already, I'm a
> newbie here. ;o)
> 
Possible, but it is a lot of work.  One thing you would have to do is write
a whole accessibility implementation for any interactive widgets in the
canvas.

I'd like to see how far we can get with existing widgets.  The more existing
code we can leverage the faster we can deliver.

-- 
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui