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Adobe To Donate Flex SDK To Open Source Community

Posted by timothy on from the free-bunnies-and-kittens dept.

New submitter ProbablyJoe writes "InfoQ reports that Adobe is to donate its web application SDK, Flex, to an 'an established open source foundation' — suspected to either be the Open Spoon Foundation (who have been working on an open source fork of Flex), or the more established Apache Foundation. Adobe has stated on its blog that they consider HTML5 to be a better technology for the future than its own Flex platform, causing frustration among developers who have used the platform for enterprise applications. Is this a generous contribution to the open source community, or just Adobe offloading another failing technology?"

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  1. Re:Need FlashBlock for HTML5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I hope you're kidding. I disable JS from third party sites... but a LOT of sites use JS for menus, interaction, and layout. If you completely turn JS off, you are going to be missing a LOT of experience.

  2. Re:Need FlashBlock for HTML5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This also breaks a large portion of websites, and / or website functionality.

    For example, you can't use the slider on Slashdot to hide / show lower rated comments.