Hype
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I wish them good luck.. but basically they are building the same thing that everyone (including themselves) have been shitting about in regards to Flash..
If they are trying to sell me that all that animation and stuff they'll be empowering basic and intermediate users to create will run flawlessly without any CPU lag and issues I have a bridge to sell you.
From his interview, I would say he has one thing wrong "HTML5/JS/Canvas as it is is also not meant for mobile" and that's why Google and Apple and everyone else pushes native apps on the mobile devices because they know that JS/Canvas or CSS3 stuff even if hardware accelerated just doesn't cut it.
The reality is that they are creating something we've already went through with Flash and FINALLY the performance issues, the GPU acceleration, the absolutely awful sites are behind us and Flash and Flash Builder have evolved beyond just a simple fancy pantsy animation tool.
Hype is Flash 1.0 in relative terms and thanks to this I can bet you whatever money that you will be seeing some absolutely horrific things done in HTML5/JS with this tool. Even worse than Flash.
I am almost positive that Adobe will offer AS3/Flash files to HTML5/JS/Canvas stuff before they can say version 2.0.
We already have Jangaroo and PinacleCode that do AS3 to HTML5/JS.. all Adobe has to do is integrate it in Flash/Flash Builder and that's the end of Hype.
As always, I'm not necessarily Flash or nothing.. I don't think anyone who knows me and read my posts can say that.. All I want is great tools and IDEs (like Flash/Flash Builder) and refined and beautiful OOP language like AS3. ECMAScript 5 looks like a good contender even though it's not really OOP but it has a lot of fixes that cause/caused issues with JS so far.
If browsers can allow me to build HTML5 experiences with multi-channel sound, access to cameras and live streaming, polished JS/JQuery/whatever or a framework that emulates proper OOP practices, unified CSS3 styles and great tools, I have nothing against ditching Flash whatsoever. But anyone who's remotely realistic knows that this is not gonna happen for a loooooong time, if ever, and all the new fancy ECMAScript 5 and other stuff along with HTML5 won't be ready for prime time as long as you have IE6 which accounts for about 50% of the web at the moment.
It's getting there but that's all moving at superbly slow pace. The only chance web standards/browsers have to really outmatch Flash in what it can do is NaCl, but that's not even begun really based on the presentation given about the future of web at Google I/O 2011.
But, I don't have problem with these guys at all.. I wish them all the luck and hope they make a kick ass tool.
- ah shit, who's the mod here.. delete this extra post please, it double posted when I hit Broadcast.Boz