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  1. Re:To Clarify by lars_doucet · · Score: 1 · on Flash Is Dead; Long Live OpenFL!

    OpenFL supports HTML5: http://www.openfl.org/blog/201... So any improvements to HTML5 will also benefit OpenFL. What OpenFL solves is the issue of "shit, my platform holder's investors got bored and yanked the rug out from under me, time to build my workflow back together from scratch!" By using Haxe, I can preserve my codebase and pivot to whatever the hot next technology is without having to bet on any one platform. I see that as a feature, not a bug.

  2. To Clarify by lars_doucet · · Score: 5, Informative · on Flash Is Dead; Long Live OpenFL!

    It seems a lot of people either didn't RTFA or are basically misunderstanding what OpenFL is. OpenFL is NOT an open source version of the flash Flash Plugin, like Gnash. OpenFL is a code library written in Haxe. You use OpenFL, and then you can output a truly native (C++) app, but can still use the flash API. It doesn't embed the flash player, or Adobe AIR, or anything like that, in your generated C++ app. You can use this to create truly native apps for mac/windows/linux/mobile, etc. Very recently they've added the ability to output to HTML5: http://www.openfl.org/blog/201... So you can take your old flash code, port it to Haxe, and then have a 100% Javascript based HTML5 game. And you can take that same Haxe code and make a native C++ app with it. And so on. Hope this helps demystify things.

  3. Re:Open Standards, Not stupid plugins. by lars_doucet · · Score: 3, Informative · on Flash Is Dead; Long Live OpenFL!

    OpenFL supports HTML5: http://www.openfl.org/blog/201...