Comments on: Kevin Rowe & Kevin Lynch on Apollo

By: Renaun Erickson

Renaun Erickson — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:15:50 +0000

I used to think Apollo was like a Zinc thing, but its way bigger. The session on Apollo that showed a whole HTML page as an ActionScript object which could have all Flash 8 filters applied to it was nuts. Zinc does not have a HTML engine under near it that renders up to Flash…. And who is to say Apollo wont have local drivers to databases (go look at Ted Patricks posts on a MySQL driver in AS3)…. MAX was nuts.

By: Lee Friedman

Lee Friedman — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:08:30 +0000

So, I was there too. To your point, Zinc does all this and has integration into a lot of local APIs.
Not sure how much integration will be done with APIs on both MAC and PC unless they open up player. It’s a big moving target.
How do I test apps? How do I deploy and update them. How do they install (directory structure, etc…). How will they be serviceable. Right now, it’s just a toy, not practical, too many questions…….MAX overload…..aaahhhhh

By: Ryan Stewart

Ryan Stewart — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:55:30 +0000

Dude! You’re a blogging machine! I think Ed Rowe was the presenter for Apollo. Somme cool stuff!

By: John Farrar

John Farrar — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:47:47 +0000

I would love to see you read a file from a browser and do something with it other than upload. (big grin here) Apollo can actually consume the file. It is something it can directly use… without a round trip through a server! (And Apollo can do this without pushing the file through a form request.) Conclusion… this is very cool! ( IMO )