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

[Sebastian Wagner]

I think if you do that a lot of folks have their *old* apps and are forced
to sit some weeks in their office trying to shift it to AS3, stay with the
old platform or find another solution.



sebastian

2009/9/8 Raju Bitter <rajubitter at me.com>

> 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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