I expect more momentum in the coming months due to developers realizing, or marketeers realizing, what HTML5 in practice means...
Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone Op 16-nov.-2012 om 23:23 heeft Om <bigosma...@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Gordon Smith <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> I think that developers can continue to build good apps with AS3 and V11, >> but I'm assuming -- perhaps wrongly -- that the demand for them is going to >> decrease because companies see that Adobe is no longer investing many >> resources in them. Hasn't demand already fallen off over the last year? Are >> developers on this list still able to earn a living building new Flex apps, >> or are you maintaining old ones? > > Where I work, I am building new Flex apps targetting web and mobile > platforms. There are other teams here that are either maintaining or > building brand new Flex apps. There was some talk about HTML5/JS till a > few months after the Adobe announcement, but that was settled very quickly > because no other technology comes close to Flex in terms of richness, > maintainability and ease of use. > > Two points to note: > 1. More and more teams/developers are getting burnt by the promise of > HTML5. > 2. Flex is still a very powerful brand. It has taken some beating but is > still standing strong. > > Lets not conflate the term "mature, tried and tested" with the term "old > and aging" > > Thanks, > Om > > >> >> - Gordon >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Fréderic Cox [mailto:coxfrede...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 2:01 PM >> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Flex 5 in haxe >> >> I understand what you mean here but isn't that always going to be the >> case. AS4 will go into maintenance mode, then AS5 etc.. What I don't >> understand is why AS3 is not good enough for a Flex 5 version or even Flex >> 6 which will export to multiple targets. Can you elaborate on that? >> >> Output should be a invisible layer (JS, iOS, Android, SWF, .. Shouldn't >> matter for the developer). I think most developers like Flex because of the >> ease-of-use(binding,mxml), rapid development(OOP, components, ..) and >> multiplatform (mobile, desktop, ..) and I don't see the need for AS4 thereŠ >> but I'm not export on the subject (just eager to learn more about >> it) >> >> On 16/11/12 22:48, "Gordon Smith" <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote: >> >>> The continued support is that AS3 and V11 and AIR-for-V11 aren't going >>> away. But I think the idea is that they go into maintenance mode. >>> They're not the technology of the future. Do you want to develop for an >>> old, aging platform? >> >> >>
