Re: Flex white paper on ADC

2012-02-16 Thread Doug Arthur
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Jonathan Campos wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Ariel Jakobovits wrote: > >> > however, new features will not be added to the runtimes specifically to >> support the Apache project's efforts. >> Does this concern people? >> > > This doesn't concern me at

Re: Flex white paper on ADC

2012-02-16 Thread Jonathan Campos
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Ariel Jakobovits wrote: > > however, new features will not be added to the runtimes specifically to > support the Apache project's efforts. > Does this concern people? > This doesn't concern me at all. There are so many features and general improvements that need

Re: Flex white paper on ADC

2012-02-16 Thread Martin Heidegger
Flex is an application framework and thus is always depending on its runtime - especially if it should once run within HTML. Why assume something different? I think the Adobe guys will listen to enhancements of the Flash Player if enough people speak out. And I guess if all the Apache members

Re: Flex white paper on ADC

2012-02-16 Thread Omar Gonzalez
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Sandeep Gupta wrote: > > however, new features will not be added to the runtimes specifically to > support the Apache project's efforts. > Does this concern people? > Not me. > > This may become one of the biggest bottlenecks in the development of Flex. > Cons

Re: Flex white paper on ADC

2012-02-16 Thread Sandeep Gupta
> however, new features will not be added to the runtimes specifically to support the Apache project's efforts. Does this concern people? This may become one of the biggest bottlenecks in the development of Flex. Consider this: You cannot enhance the HTML control in Flex unless Adobe opens up the

Re: Flex white paper on ADC

2012-02-15 Thread Maciek Sakrejda
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Yiotis Katsambas wrote: > My only question relates to Linux. It would be so awesome if we could get > an answer to this. I understand that Linux for AIR is not coming back, but > is Adobe committed to the browser plugin for linux? +1 on this question. Some of our

Re: Flex white paper on ADC

2012-02-15 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi there, The white paper s far clearer than previous statements from Adobe, perhaps later than I liked but it will certainly help the wider Flex community. I'm certainly less concerned about a few things including Flash Builder's future. The white paper also mentions that FalconJS will be dona

Re: Flex white paper on ADC

2012-02-15 Thread Yiotis Katsambas
Hi Alan, That is great! My only question relates to Linux. It would be so awesome if we could get an answer to this. I understand that Linux for AIR is not coming back, but is Adobe committed to the browser plugin for linux? Thanks! Yiotis

Re: Flex white paper on ADC

2012-02-15 Thread João Fernandes
On 2/15/2012 10:36 PM, Alan Greenblatt wrote: Hi all, As promised, a white paper has been published on the ADC detailing Adobe's view of Flex and its commitments to Flex in the future. Hopefully this should answer most if not all of your questions. You can find the Flex whitepaper here: h

Re: Flex white paper on ADC

2012-02-15 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> In the past, features were added to Flash Player and AIR specifically to > support the needs of Flex applications.  Can anyone point out some of these features? > however, new features will not be added to the runtimes specifically to >support the Apache project's efforts. Does this concern pe