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Adobe To Donate Flex SDK To Open Source Community
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?"
Adobe Edge isn't ready, and won't replace Flash anytime soon.
Edge is in very-early beta. Edge doesn't yet support buttons, only basic animations. No Actionscript, limited options for interactivity. Forget 3d features such as Away3d or Papervision.
In the 90's sites were "Optimized for Netscape" or "Viewed best with Internet Explorer". On Windows and Macs sites looked and functioned differently. Flash broke down this barrier - you could design a site and have it look identical on ALL devices. Flash is extremely capable, and it is disappointing that we are going back to the landscape of the 90's Internet with companies bickering over "standards".
Flash works, and it works well. Moving to Edge is a giant step backwards, about 10 years or so.