Comments on: Suddenly Adobe/Flash Lite gets very interesting for mobile devices … http://www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2008/05/suddenly_adobef.html Wireless mobility - Innovation - Digital convergence - mobile web 2.0 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:47:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Alexander Marktl http://www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2008/05/suddenly_adobef.html/comment-page-1#comment-1474 Alexander Marktl Sun, 11 May 2008 11:05:46 +0000 http://dev5.indigocontenthost.co.uk/archives/2008/05/suddenly_adobef.html#comment-1474 I think people are overseeing one thing. Adobe is opening itself because they finally understand that, despite its power, Flash still has its weaknesses (eg. performance or SEO). Due to the architecture it will never be able to compete with Ajax in some areas and Adobe understands. Just look for the next Dreamweaver release and what they are doing already (building Ajax UI components like blazes, ActionScript-Javascript communications libs, Webkit in Air,...) Adobe will likely bring us the first "usable" Ajax development platform (something like Flex) and in another 2 iterations they will deliver an integrated client platform based on Flash,JavaScript and Webkit that runs everywhere exactly how it should run without compromises. It's not about Flash competing with Ajax or Silverlight, Adobe wants to leverage all those existing web technologies to create the next Java and .Net on the client side. I think people are overseeing one thing. Adobe is opening itself because they finally understand that, despite its power, Flash still has its weaknesses (eg. performance or SEO). Due to the architecture it will never be able to compete with Ajax in some areas and Adobe understands.
Just look for the next Dreamweaver release and what they are doing already (building Ajax UI components like blazes, ActionScript-Javascript communications libs, Webkit in Air,…)
Adobe will likely bring us the first “usable” Ajax development platform (something like Flex) and in another 2 iterations they will deliver an integrated client platform based on Flash,JavaScript and Webkit that runs everywhere exactly how it should run without compromises.
It’s not about Flash competing with Ajax or Silverlight, Adobe wants to leverage all those existing web technologies to create the next Java and .Net on the client side.

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