[Laszlo-dev] What does this mean?

[Max Carlson]

Yeah, why the heck not?  Native apps would be sweet, and I'm becoming 
more and more convinced the iPhone is the only mobile OS that really 
matters...

Even better would be a plain C backend that could cross-compile (with 
runtime specific abstractions) across a variety of devices.

Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org

On 2/6/10 7:24 AM, P T Withington wrote:
> Which makes me wonder:  Should OpenLaszlo have an Objective-C back-end?
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> 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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