Comments on: When Do You Let Go of 8?

By: When Do You Let Go of 8? | RIA Journal

When Do You Let Go of 8? | RIA Journal — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:26:43 +0000

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By: Mike Britton

Mike Britton — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:52:19 +0000

It’s hard to confront the mountain of AS2 one-offs that must now be ported to AS3 when the decision to go AS3 is made. Personally, I think all new Flash content should be created for the latest Player. Luckily you seem to have a good team to standardize all functionality across the board using AS3. When this is finished, the next step is to recreate the one-offs using the new stuff.

Continued maintenance of AS2 content will just prolong your misery. If it were my call, I’d suggest all salespeople sell their clients on the new, cool AS3 potential, then move swiftly to replace legacy apps with new ones.

I hate to mention it here, but AIR could help sell clients on the bleeding edge. The bleeding edge is where a strong, innovative company should be.

BTW congrats on becoming a dad!

By: John C. Bland II

John C. Bland II — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:07:59 +0000

I was building, pushing, and getting clients on 9 during beta 1. :-) One CMS was delivered in B1 then updated for B2/release (due to the breaking changes).

But…I’m bleeding edge like that. lol

Oh, I’m pushing a client to publish a long-running Flex 2 project with 3 due to speed updates and how well the app works (minus design issues) with a simple re-publish to 3. We’ll see if they go for it tomorrow. :-)

By: Lee Regan

Lee Regan — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:38:48 +0000

Good arguments in the article Jesse. I work for a large corporation some of you may have heard of, Lockheed Martin. I build Interactive Courseware for the US Navy. As the lead developer I have been pushing for the use of Flash Player 9 because of the benefits it offers us. We follow a GOLD DISC standard that the US Navy puts together, a set of requirements that we must follow for the Navy to accept our product. In the GOLD DISC standard it states that Flash Player 9 is the standard… YES!!

However… Many of the locations our product will be used still have Flash Player 7, with no plans to upgrade to player 9. Up until this time last year FP5 was the standard.. I was shocked.

So to answer your question, When do you let go of 8? The real world answer to me is that you don’t let go until the customer base that drives your business does. It sucks but so is life.

But the developer/designer in me will continue to fight and say that we are not responsible for making legacy products because the customer cannot keep to their own standards. We were given a set of requirements and we met them. We did our job now the customer needs to do theirs.

By: Phillip Kerman

Phillip Kerman — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:58:59 +0000

It’s really just a matter of whether you’re using some feature only available in the particular player. Also, how you want to develop it–but most clients (that I have) don’t usually go for the old “it’ll make me more efficient” line of reasoning (when proposing a newer player).

It’s nice I suppose that adobe.com strongly encourages (in fact won’t display Flash without) upgrading to FP9. However, there the reasoning is probably more to help adoption rather than any particular functionality that is only available in FP9.