[Xerte-dev] Re: The future for rlm files?

[Tom Reijnders]

 From a developer perspective with new pages, I think things are pretty 
clear.

HTML5 only for the future.

It has so many benefits. The only reason to do something in flash right 
now would be:

  - You've almost finished, and it would help someone to help you to 
port it to javascript.

Certainly yourscenario, of having completed something in 
HTML5/javascript, in my opinion, it doesn't make sense to port it to flash.

But I say all these things with the expectations that:

  - We will somehow port the wizard to html5/javascript as a next step 
(somewhere in the future)
  - I want to try (I won't promise anything) to come up with a new 
variant of Xerte Desktop that is HTML5 as well

Tom

Op 5-4-2013 17:58, Kemp Johnathan schreef:
> My thinking was from a developer perspective.
>
> If you were to create a brand new page type would it now be worth the 
> extra time to develop a Flash based model after you had created a 
> working html5 version of the page.
>
> If have the impression, based on some of Julian's comments, that it 
> may be possible to do things in html5 that would be difficult to 
> duplicate in Flash. If this is the case would you want to restrict 
> what you could achieve in html5 in order to make it duplicable in Flash?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 5 April 2013 16:49, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl 
> <mailto:reijnders at tor.nl>> wrote:
>
>     Well as far as I am concerned, don't write them off too soon.
>
>     I want to support all the new things as far as possible for one
>     generation of Xerte standalone.... so...
>
>     I can't promise anything (yet) but that's the plan.
>
>     Tom
>
>     Op 5-4-2013 17:40, Kemp Johnathan schreef:
>>     Looking at the discussions at present regarding the next version
>>     of XOT there is a fair amount of consideration given to allowing
>>     HTML 5 projects to fall back gracefully to Flash if HTML 5 is not
>>     supported, also to allow the optional publication of projects as
>>     HTML5 or Flash (unless I have misunderstood the discussions).
>>
>>     Is it intended that there will always be an .rlm flash based
>>     model and a .html html5 based model for every page?
>>
>>     As flash falls more by the wayside is it going to be acceptable
>>     to develop new page types that are defined only with a html5
>>     model and an xwd file, and no flash based .rlm model?
>>
>>     If this is acceptable then does anything need to change in XOT to
>>     accommodate this? e.g. what happens if you try to publish your
>>     project as a flash project when it contains a page that has no
>>     .rlm file for that page?
>>
>>     Kind regards
>>
>>     Johnathan
>>
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