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Re:Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocus... by joeyespo on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @09:54AM (#3215626)
While these things are true, developing in the Flash environment was a lot of fun and very gratifying.

I believe if the Flash development environment was available for JS/HTML5 today, Flash hackers would be much more excited about it. It's not the fact that Flash is going away that causes sadness. Rather, it's the gap between that and having an equally powerful environment for JS/HTML5.

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Re:Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocus... by bad_user on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @10:29AM (#3215815)
Well that was partly my point.

Another thing I forgot to mention ... Adobe already has an AS3 to Javascript compiler that produces Google Closure compliant code (or this is the plan anyway) and they are using it internally for their own projects.

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Re:Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocus... by discreteevent on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @02:55PM (#3217108)
What would the differences be between what that compiler does and what the Dart compiler claims it will do when its finished?
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