[Xerte] Re: Xerte online toolkits and H5

Wed Jun 13 18:05:10 BST 2012

The problem with flex is going to be whether the open source apache effort is going to get enough of a say on developments in the proprietary flash player, and whether the open source community there can get its act together to continue developments. Progress has been slow so far imho
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett [d_b_burnett at hotmail.com]
Sent: 13 June 2012 17:46
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte online toolkits and H5

AW wouldn't have made it onto i-anything either.
It had weird memory handling as well. 100% cpu usage etc.

Yes, Xerte is actually way more powerful when it comes down to it.

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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:30:15 -0700
From: Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte online toolkits and H5

Which would mean they killed Authorware for no good reason, since getting Flash was why Adobe purchased Macromedia. But I like Xerte better, anyway. J

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 9:22 AM
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte online toolkits and H5

> I think Flex is the best cross-platform development SDK out there for iOS  <snip>

Until Apple drops the other shoe and says, no Flash, no how.

:-)

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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:56:38 +0100
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte online toolkits and H5

> IOW, not much point in starting a project in Xerte 3.

The question is really whether there is any point in building a Flex project, whatever tools you use.

If you want to build mobile apps, there is a very big point, I think Flex is the best cross-platform development SDK out there for iOS and Android development, likewise if you only need to deliver to desktop PCs, the Flex framework is very cool. But if you want to deliver to every browser on every device, the Flash Player is not going to do it, and that’s the problem.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 13 June 2012 14:01
To: Xerte list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte online toolkits and H5

>>Xerte 3 is backwater at this point, no?

>It’s Flex. It’s all tied up in the flash vs. non-flash, SDK-donated-to-the-Apache-Foundation Adobe-PR-balls-up.

IOW, not much point in starting a project in Xerte 3.

The traction is elsewhere.

>>H5 player will deal with XOT, correct?

>Correct

Again, Xerte 3 will not play nice with the translator libraries then.

>>XOT is not using Flex framework, right?

>Right.

Ditto above.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 13 June 2012 13:52
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte online toolkits and H5

> Xerte 3 exists, and there will soon be a HTML 5 player as well

More curious questions:

Xerte 3 is backwater at this point, no?

H5 player will deal with XOT, correct?

XOT is not using Flex framework, right?

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