I'm wondering if most in this group are more interested about targeting html5 than air because it seems to me it would be hard to do both well.
I want to run on AIR. On Oct 5, 2012 9:38 AM, "sébastien Paturel" <sebpatu.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with others that you should abandone the idea that Adobe could get > Catalyst back from the dead. > They have been pretty clear about it, and the open sourcing is not an > option because of code dependencies. > > Your only chance to see catalyst come back from Adobe, is to make Apache > Flex te best framework for HTML5 runtime! > > > Le 04/10/2012 00:48, Sebastian Mohr a écrit : > >> @christofer dutz ... thanks for sharing your thoughts. +1 from my side! >> Flash Catalyst CS5.5 is a charm for interaction designers like me. >> >> >> Sincerely Yours, >> >> Sebastian Mohr >> Apache Flex Developer (PPMC), >> Interaction Designer & Musician >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/**masuland<http://www.linkedin.com/in/masuland> >> >> >> >> >> On Oct 3, 2012, at 7:21 PM, christofer.d...@c-ware.de wrote: >> >> Well isn't it usually that way around? >>> >>> I create some general UI scetches using some tools like blamiq mockups >>> and deal with negoitating the functionallity with my customers. As soon as >>> the component works as desired I go "pimp my app" and give it to a designer >>> to have it pimped. >>> >>> Using Catalyst this was really easy (As soon as you had a desiger at >>> hand that was used to it and it's concepts). I was even able to let the >>> designer skin a running application deployed by me somewhere on the web, so >>> I didn't have give away the code of the application itself or setup the >>> environment at the designers office. This workflow was the major >>> breakthrough for me and was one of the major things that made me shift >>> allmost entirely to the Flex road. >>> >>> It's a real pitty to have it dropped and wasted :-( >>> >>> >>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>> Von: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] >>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. Oktober 2012 18:18 >>> An: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org >>> Betreff: Re: AW: Financing the Design View AIR App (Was: Re: Design View >>> AIR App) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 10/3/12 7:38 AM, "christofer.d...@c-ware.de" < >>> christofer.d...@c-ware.de> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Oh ... let me thow in a little more weight for the Catalyst ;-) >>>> >>>> I invested quite some time in setting up a project structure that >>>> allowed me to concentrate on developing (Using an ugly but functional >>>> developer Skin) and having professional Designers use Catalyst to Skin >>>> the application. >>>> Unfortunately it seemed that the designers available on the market >>>> were all even less "finished" than the Catalyst project, but as soon >>>> as the designers got the hang of it, the results were pretty >>>> sattisfying and I had what I was allways dreaming about: Being able to >>>> concentrate on the functionality and have a designer do all the stuff >>>> that sells the application (cool buttons, even greater effects and >>>> animated transitions, ...) :-) >>>> >>>> I would be really happy if Adobe didn't entirely drop this tool, and >>>> if they did, If they would somehow open-source it. >>>> >>>> It is essentially "dropped". See [1]. There are no plans to >>> opensource >>> it. It too had a lot of "baggage" that made it difficult to implement. >>> For example, it really wasn't extensible as to what components it could >>> handle. >>> >>> The principle behind it (that you can take designer art and break it >>> down into components) is compelling, but I question whether it remains >>> valid in a world of dynamic UI. >>> >>> It is also interesting to note that you used it in completely different >>> way than it was intended. It was for a design-first-then-develop workflow >>> and you did it the other way (which is what I do when I have a choice as >>> well). >>> >>> [1] >>> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/**flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html<http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html> >>> -- >>> Alex Harui >>> Flex SDK Team >>> Adobe Systems, Inc. >>> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >>> >>> >> >
