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Re: [LUG] OT: 64bit Flash Player

 

On 22/08/10 11:59, Julian Hall wrote:
 On 22/08/2010 07:32, tom wrote:
On 21/08/10 21:20, tom brough wrote:
On 21/08/10 12:55, Rob Beard wrote:
On 20/08/10 22:35, tom brough wrote:

Surely flash is irrelevant with the conception of HTML5?

Not entirely, it would require millions of web sites to make HTML5
versions available, and since a whole load of people still use IE6 it's
not going to happen overnight.

Rob

I think the point(s) I am making are:

1. Why would adobe continue to support a product that's going to be
obsolete sooner or later. Its not going to be in their interests to
develop and support 64bit versions if HTML5 overtakes, or shrinks their
market considerably. Long time till that happens agreed, but it will.
I think the trouble is more that Adobe are simply not capable of writing the code.
Is that because it was originally developed by Macromedia not Adobe and they now realise they have a knowledge gap in what needs to be done?

Julian

I think there is a problem of - a) no (new) machine code programmers any more - its a dying art and understanding the nuances of machine code is too hard for current point and click merchants. b) there is probably a knowledge gap but also a capability gap - we dont seem to have the broadly based geeks that were around 20 years ago - people are pigeon holed and thats not good for overviewing a large project. c) with a large project the better the foundations the higher you can build. Its quite possible there are low level faults that become very apparent at 64 bits - probably not insurmountable by someone who can get past step b) above but bring them up in progress meetings and they will reach resonance very quickly.
Tom te tom te tom


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