Comments on: Tim Anderson says "AIR desktop platform tries to do too much for one product" http://www.flashenabledblog.com/2007/06/27/tim-anderson-says-air-desktop-platform-tries-to-do-too-much-for-one-product/ A Blog covering Air, Flash, Flex, Illustrator and Photoshop Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:17:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: bryan potts http://www.flashenabledblog.com/2007/06/27/tim-anderson-says-air-desktop-platform-tries-to-do-too-much-for-one-product/comment-page-1/#comment-380 bryan potts Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:32:57 +0000 http://flashenabled.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/tim-anderson-says-air-desktop-platform-tries-to-do-too-much-for-one-product/#comment-380 I may not really know what I'm talking about, but i think I hate AIR already. if the Kuler palette in illustrator is what i think it is - a Flash runtime embedded in illustrator - and this means its a glimpse of AIR - it's a piece of trash. Simple interaction with the Kuler palette is infuriating since the text input box for the kuler search is a Flash component. That means all the subtle things that work in a Windows textbox are poorly emulated by this shitty flash layer. For example, clicking and dragging to select text was buggy when the mouseup event took place outside of the kuler palette. Gimme a break . I may not really know what I’m talking about, but i think I hate AIR already. if the Kuler palette in illustrator is what i think it is – a Flash runtime embedded in illustrator – and this means its a glimpse of AIR – it’s a piece of trash.
Simple interaction with the Kuler palette is infuriating since the text input box for the kuler search is a Flash component. That means all the subtle things that work in a Windows textbox are poorly emulated by this shitty flash layer. For example, clicking and dragging to select text was buggy when the mouseup event took place outside of the kuler palette. Gimme a break .

]]> By: Chris Seahorn http://www.flashenabledblog.com/2007/06/27/tim-anderson-says-air-desktop-platform-tries-to-do-too-much-for-one-product/comment-page-1/#comment-379 Chris Seahorn Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:45:49 +0000 http://flashenabled.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/tim-anderson-says-air-desktop-platform-tries-to-do-too-much-for-one-product/#comment-379 I certainly disagree: see comments here: http://probertson.com/articles/2007/06/19/air-sql-docs-dont-mention-sqlite-my-response/ and here: http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=261 This one below was my personal favorite...unfortunately no comments allowed (boy would that one attract them too :)) http://www.pcw.co.uk/itweek/comment/2192884/adobe-air-leave-customers Which not only was a jaw dropper but absolute confirmation that you can't please all the people all the time. Oh well....congrats on shaking the coconuts out of the trees with such a strong platform :) Chris I certainly disagree:

see comments here:

http://probertson.com/articles/2007/06/19/air-sql-docs-dont-mention-sqlite-my-response/

and here:

http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=261

This one below was my personal favorite…unfortunately no comments allowed (boy would that one attract them too :) )

http://www.pcw.co.uk/itweek/comment/2192884/adobe-air-leave-customers

Which not only was a jaw dropper but absolute confirmation that you can’t please all the people all the time. Oh well….congrats on shaking the coconuts out of the trees with such a strong platform :)

Chris

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