[Laszlo-dev] Relevance of SWF8 runtime for OL 5.0 / support of Flash 10?

[Raju Bitter]

Hm, no answer? Is that something you don't want to discuss with the  
community?

On Aug 31, 2009, at 1:05 AM, Raju Bitter wrote:

> Do you still plan to support SWF8 with OL 5.0? I believe that OL  
> needs to shift the focus to DHTML/HTML5 and Flash 10 instead. Flash  
> 8 is just out-dated by now, and I cannot imagine good use for the  
> runtime. According to Adobe, Flash 10 is installed on nearly 87% of  
> Internet-connected desktop computers by now:
> http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2009/07/welcome-to-the-flash-platform.html
>
> The new Flash 10 features are much more interesting for OpenLaszlo  
> than continued SWF8 support, especially things like the improved  
> text engine and 3d functionality.
>
> Flash 10 and mobile: Adobe announced a beta version of Flash 10  
> player for Android, Palm Pre and other phones for October (Max  
> 2009). For some time SFW8 was still an option for Flash Lite 2.1 or  
> 3.0 - although I don't know of any deployed application, but that  
> will change with the release of Flash 10 player for mobile devices.
>
> I know that Laszlo still uses SWF8 for Webtop, but it will only be a  
> matter of time until that's not needed any more.
>

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