why flash MX 2004 doesn't work for the enterprise, yet (wasRe: [Sigia-l] The future of WWW...)

Listera listera at rcn.com
Wed Jun 2 20:26:11 EDT 2004


Karl Groves:

> integrated browser & OS

The problem is *not* integration per se, it's the lock-in.

I'm not part of the crowd that begrudges MS for bundling IE. The rendering
engine when abstracted as a framework can be used in any manner a developer
sees fit, on Windows or any other OS. In the example I gave of the RIA I'm
currently coding, WebKit from Apple allows me to provide full web browser
functionality and control what's shown inside, change contents, reorder,
reload, submit forms, play videostreams, Flash, the works... all
programmatically. So I'm happy that I have all that to build upon.

What Dave's been advocating is to kill HTML/web browser and adopt XAML.
Unfortunately XAML will someday run only on a small portion of the Windows
platform. I, and I'd assume all IAs as advocates of the user, have a
responsibility to make sure that the next generation of networked apps are
not locked into a subset of a single platform, which happens to be owned by
the most notorious monopoly abuser in tech history. I don't think that's too
much to ask, is it?

Ziya
Nullius in Verba 





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