[Laszlo-dev] What does this mean?

[P T Withington]

Digging into the labs link shows they are basically doing what we are doing:  compiling Flex apps to DHTML.  Hm...  (I don't think they are including their VM -- the FAQ says they are not.  So I suspect instead they are translating Flex classes to Objective-C and then using the Apple compiler.)

On 2010-02-06, at 10:10, Henry Minsky wrote:

> It sounds like the compile their Flash VM plus your as3 application into a
> native app for
> the iPhone. So it doesn't upset Apple, but also it is probably set to not be
> able to load any
> new swf
> content over the network,  (unless there's some backdoor way to to load swf
> files as data and then
> convert them to executable code)
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:34 AM, P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> Or is he just talking about this:
>> 
>> http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/
>> 
>> which more likely is generating an AJAX version of your Flex app?
>> 
>> On 2010-02-06, at 09:29, P T Withington wrote:
>> 
>>> Is Lynch saying they have shipped apps with embedded Flash VM?  I thought
>> that was a direct violation of the App Store terms?
>>> 
>>>> We have shown that Flash technology is starting to work on these devices
>> today by enabling standalone applications for the iPhone to be built on
>> Flash. In fact, some of these apps are already available in the Apple App
>> Store such as FickleBlox and Chroma Circuit. http://bit.ly/bIOlVu
>>> 
>>> Link: http://bit.ly/bIOlVu
>>> Title: Open Access to Content and Applications (Adobe Featured Blogs)
>>> Source:
>> http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/02/open_access_to_content_and_app.html#comment-2137153#comment-2137153
>>> See who is talking about this page: http://bit.ly/bIOlVu+
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>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com