[Laszlo-dev] What does this mean?

[P T Withington]

Which makes me wonder:  Should OpenLaszlo have an Objective-C back-end?

On 2010-02-06, at 10:23, P T Withington wrote:

> 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
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