Foi esta noite o Live Chat com Ryan Stewart, James Ward, Matt Chotin, Mike Potter e Dave McAllister. Eu e o João Fernandes, para variar estivemos presentes com as nossas perguntas. Peguei no chat completo, e seleccionei as melhores perguntas para colocar aqui. E digâmos que há algumas novidades muito interessantes. O Thermo é uma delas!
Outra é que provavelmente conseguiremos trazer a Portugal alguns dos nomes acima referidos quando organizarmos o ciclo de conferências que estamos a planear.
Seguem então as questões. A itálico são as que eu e o João fizemos.
Question: What is Thermo ?
Answer: “Thermo” will streamline the process of adding interactivity, behavior and motion to creative assets and will work seamlessly with both Adobe’s Creative Suite tools, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks and Flash, and with developer oriented tools such as Flex Builder.
Question: How are things looking for the next FB3 and AIR beta releases?
Answer: Great, they’re on track to be released in early of 2008.
Question: will we see a better embed pdf solution in AIR before version 2.0?
Answer: We’re definitely looking at ways to increase the support for PDF in AIR. I think that’s going to be a big part of 2.0.
Question: will we see an Adobe solution for SEO problem in flex so flex apps could be crawled by search engines?
Answer: We are working on a solution for this. Flex 3 includes built in support for deep linking into your Flex applications.
Question: What are Adobe`s plans/timeline for incorportating AIR technology into mobile devices?
Answer: It’s in the plans, but we don’t have any release date for it.
Question: Is access to graphics processors on the horizon for the flash player?
Answer: we are currently beginning to leverage the graphics processors for hardware acceleration of video and will be looking to leverage this more in future Players
Question: Is Adobe working on some kind of solution for using Actionscript also as a Server-side language?
Answer: No, not that we know of.
Question: How long do you see AS3 being the standard for Flash Platform development? Is AS4 in the works or can we keep AS3 for a while and just add api`s for features?
Answer: AS4 is currently under development in the TC-39 of ECMA. AS3 doesn’t just go away because of a new standard, so you can continue to extend it as necessary. Expect to see more on AS4 from ECMA in mid-2008
Question: when will we see AIR supporting on2 or h.264 to FMS, this is a must have for AIR?
Answer: AIR 1.0, which is out early next year, will support both On2 and H.264
Question: Is there PDF support available for Flex?
Answer: Not from Adobe, but there are some cool third party libraries including AlivePDF.
Question: The Portuguese RIA community is thinking on organizing a two day event around RIA development. Would you guys be interested in coming to Portugal and be the speakers at some sessions?
Answer: Yes, please contact me at *******.
Question: Will the VM of Flash Player ever allow access to local filesystem by explicit authorization of the client? (this would be incredible…)
Answer: this is definitely a request we’ve heard before and something we’ll try to consider for the future
Question: Will flash player eventually support proper, standard compliant formatting for html text?
Answer: text is something we’re focusing heavily on for the next major release of the Flash player. more info to be announced at MAX
Question: Will be the switch to FP10 even more amazing than from FP8 to FP9?
Answer: We think it will be!
Question: We miss better representation of Adobe here in Portugal, other than commercial. Does Adobe has any plans for Portugal?
Answer: check out flex.org/community to learn more about the user groups, we’d love to see one in portugal
Question: Any concerns with SWF and Flash decompiler ? Is there any ways to enhance security ?
Answer: we’re working with some partners on this, but if you deliver your SWF over HTTPS you should be OK
Question: Will FB have some kind of UML to AS live synchronous code generator?
Answer: not in FB3, but there are defintiely folks out there in the community who have been thinking about this
Question: Will it ever be possible to use joypads and other HCI devices on Air applications, without using some kind of backend to talk to the drivers?
Answer: I hope so :). It’s on the roadmap, it just didn’t make it into 1.0 Joypads with Flash/AIR games woudl be sweet! (Ryan Stewart)
Question: AIR Webkit plugin support for non adobe technologies like quicktime or wmv?
Answer: Not right now, but we’re talking about it. (Ryan Stewart)