Thread: FFXIV 2.0 and (User-made addons)

Originally Posted by Randelmire

I don't agree with this since Adobe dropped flash support for Android and it never was supported on iOS. Tablets are becoming more popular today. Because of that, I'm sure Flash won't stay around for very long and will be replaced by HTML5 soon enough.

Anyway, thinking about it more, I start to understand why Flash would be easy to use to create new UI addons, since it creates vectorial grapics.

Yes native Vector support is a big part of Flash's strengths for such an application. iOS support was actually Apple's doing though. iOS development support was built into Flash CS5 but Apple gave Adobe a big old middle finger on the app store.

Adobe is dropping flash support for all mobile platforms but that is only Flash Player. Flash and Actionscript in Flex/Air applications will still be supported on new devices as they are standalone packages.

Overall Adobe is accepting the HTML5 standard though so that is definitely correct. They cannot compete with W3C standards. But, HTML5 is new and still not a lot of people know how to utilize the new API hooks and technologies associated with H5.

I'm stoked, I can't wait to get development resources from SE for app/addon design. First up, simply out of spite because people hate them so much A DMG/DPS/HPS meter!