Comments on: Flex Sells http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/27/flex-sells/ The official AllPeers blog Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:29:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: enefekt http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/27/flex-sells/#comment-88969 enefekt Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:35:26 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/27/flex-sells/#comment-88969 I work with with XUL/JavaScript and ActionScript 3/Flex everyday. I can definitely say that each have their strengths and weaknesses. One of the things I like so much about the Flash Platform has been the dedication by Macromedia/Adobe to the platform. They're not about to let Flash Player or AIR "take flight" as it were, or find a "new, separate organizational setting". Their application runtimes *are* some of their best products. The adoption rates, and trust that the general public has with the Flash Player are awesome too. It will be exciting if they can pull the same thing off with AIR. I work with with XUL/JavaScript and ActionScript 3/Flex everyday. I can definitely say that each have their strengths and weaknesses.

One of the things I like so much about the Flash Platform has been the dedication by Macromedia/Adobe to the platform. They’re not about to let Flash Player or AIR “take flight” as it were, or find a “new, separate organizational setting”. Their application runtimes *are* some of their best products.

The adoption rates, and trust that the general public has with the Flash Player are awesome too. It will be exciting if they can pull the same thing off with AIR.

]]> By: Ian McKellar http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/27/flex-sells/#comment-88814 Ian McKellar Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:50:29 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/27/flex-sells/#comment-88814 Man, OSCon is so full of open source sellouts. When I was there a couple of years ago on the Mozilla as a platform panel half the attendees were on Windows or Mac machines. Now they're excited about *Flash*? I wish we did have their flashiness though. I was trying to sell the Mozilla story at GUADEC in Birmingham last week but we're just not quite bling enough. At least those guys weren't seduced by Flash. I've tried building some stuff in SVG, but even on 1.9 its too slow, and we don't have either SVG animation support or support for SVG properties in animation libraries like jQuery. Man, OSCon is so full of open source sellouts. When I was there a couple of years ago on the Mozilla as a platform panel half the attendees were on Windows or Mac machines. Now they’re excited about *Flash*?

I wish we did have their flashiness though. I was trying to sell the Mozilla story at GUADEC in Birmingham last week but we’re just not quite bling enough. At least those guys weren’t seduced by Flash.

I’ve tried building some stuff in SVG, but even on 1.9 its too slow, and we don’t have either SVG animation support or support for SVG properties in animation libraries like jQuery.

]]> By: Robert O'Callahan http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/27/flex-sells/#comment-88797 Robert O'Callahan Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:09:14 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/27/flex-sells/#comment-88797 Those demos will be doable in principle in Gecko 1.9 (if we get landed) using HTML and SVG --- they're just clever use of gradients, transformations, masks and clipping --- but our graphics performance probably won't be good enough to make them work well. That'll have to wait for another release. Those demos will be doable in principle in Gecko 1.9 (if we get landed) using HTML and SVG — they’re just clever use of gradients, transformations, masks and clipping — but our graphics performance probably won’t be good enough to make them work well. That’ll have to wait for another release.

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