[Xerte] Re: Gates closed after flash bolted

[Julian Tenney]

Oh, the other thing, is, if you read around this story a bit, is that IE will only not have plug-in support on windows phones, not the desktop. Desktop PCs will still be able to play flash in the browser. I expect windows phones will allow you to install a browser that does support flash anyway, and at the moment, Windows phones have got a long way to go to get any share of the market. There's a recent report suggesting MS might have 20% of the phone market in 2014, and that existing users take entrenched positions around their mobile OS of choice - they are very unlikely to switch, and mainly because they either love - or hate - Apple.

So, Flash on the desktop will continue. Since we developed these tools for desktop delivery, nothing really changes there. It's all these new fangled phones and tablets we have to worry about...



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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 04 October 2011 09:30
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Gates closed after flash bolted

We've made the first step, which is abstracting the data from the logic. You're backing a good horse - Xerte Online Toolkits is, basically, an XML editor as you say. Anyone/thing can get that xml and create content from it: I'm doing it with an app for android, html5 could do it, objective c could do it, php could do it, etc.

At the recent developers meeting, getting towards some html 5 output emerged as a key thing for us to start to work on, to enable output to all devices, and all screen sizes.

It's just a case of doing the work now...

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of KnowledgeWare
Sent: 03 October 2011 22:01
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Gates closed after flash bolted

Hello Pat:

I read your post a few weeks ago and noticed no replies, but it's been on my
mind. 

In the long term strategy, what can be done about an unrelenting war on
actionscript by the major players? Sooner or later it will become redundant,
and that's a concern, especially to those of us stranded by Authorware
ending. I remember a post from Julian some time ago saying that xerte, as an
XML editor, could possibly be ported to another platform in the future
should that become necessary, or at least I think that was the nature of his
comments.

The best case it seems to me would be to have it sitting on top of HTML5,
but I have no idea if that is possible.

RonM2



-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 7:29 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Gates closed after flash bolted

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/15/no_plug_ins_on_windows_eight_browser
/

Ie10 to drop flash, sort of

Discuss.

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