[Xerte-dev] Re: [Xerte] Re: Future of Xerte: Flex Roadmap

Mon Feb 20 17:11:54 GMT 2012

This is getting to be a developer's thread, so moved it here:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/flex-community-summit-december-2011/open-discussion-about-falcon-and-falconjs

Interesting, as is the discussion afterwards, but it looks  a long way from anything useful: but it is my assertion that someone will do a sensible tool / framework / OOP thing and get it pumping out html5 whilst shielding the developer from the .js limitations and frustrations.

i even started thinking about a xerte-like xml editor and a javascript runtime: if you worked on the original set of icons in xerte, most of them wouldn't be so hard to do in javascript with some help from something like jquery:

Text? Tick
Image? Tick
Video? <video>. Much easier. Tick
Sound? <audio>. Also much easier. Tick
Page? <div> tick
Framework? <div> manager. Tick.
Entry Frame? Global <div>. Tick
Decision? Advanced <div> manager. Tick.
Interaction? Hmm. Would probably just use events and event responses, but otherwise it's a <div> manager like FW or DEC.
Script? <script> I guess, if you can execute javascript from xml files, which I assume you can.

That's most of them (except drawing), and to start with you ought to be able to handle the media and pages on (nested) frameworks. That would do a lot of what people use most.

So who's gonna make a start on it?
;-)

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 20 February 2012 16:08
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Future of Xerte: Flex Roadmap

>author once, deliver to any browser

Wasn't that Java?
;-)

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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:02:02 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Future of Xerte: Flex Roadmap
Well, there is a race on for good component based framework that can do author once, deliver to any browser, and if they can get .mxml pumping out JavaScript, css and html then brilliant, especially if you happen to know a guy who can write .mxml editors with an elearning flavour to them...

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 20 February 2012 15:55
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Future of Xerte: Flex Roadmap

Yes, noticed that.

"Prototype" and "after"
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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:53:00 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Future of Xerte: Flex Roadmap
This was the interesting bit:

Falcon JS compiler contribution to Apache
Falcon JS is an experimental ActionScript 3 compiler that targets JavaScript rather than the Flash Runtime. Adobe will contribute the prototype of Falcon JS source code to the Apache Flex Project after the completion and contribution of Falcon 1.0.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 20 February 2012 15:49
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"Flash Platform technology will continue to evolve with a focus on gaming and premium video."

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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:26:07 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Future of Xerte: Flex Roadmap
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html

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