On Saturday, November 17, 2012, Hordur Thordarson wrote: > > > But maybe I'm reading all this wrong or maybe I'm believing too much what > I think I'm reading or maybe the people here advocating a HTML/JS strategy > for Flex have been burned more by Adobe than I have. > > Bingo!
Also, Adobe can say whatever they want about their plans for Flash Player plugins. The truth is Firefox has at one point stated, from one of their VPs, that they would love to just not have a plugin architecture at all and basically tell Flash to go F itself. Microsoft tried that with Metro and they got some backlash so they put it back in 'desktop' mode. Then we have the Chrome pepper API, wow, wht a mess. It gets buggier and buggier with time. What does this all say to me? Plugin architecture has its days numbered. You can shove your head in the sand and choose to ignore the writing on the wall or you can start to strategize for a life without Flash Player plugin. I choose to be prepared. Whether HTML5 is ready or not and whether its more efficient to develop in or not that is where the industry is heading. -omar
