[Ovirt-devel] [rich at annexia.org: Flash / haxe]

[Jason Guiditta]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 15:09 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:59:07AM -0500, Steve Linabery wrote:
> > Actually I have been using the mxmlc program that is included with
> > the adobe open flex sdk.
> >
> > I don't see any haxe stuff or mtasc in f9 repo...I suspect either
> > one would be easier to package for Fedora than the flex sdk.
> 
> Yes, I guess MTASC upstream isn't active since they decided to switch
> to haxe (it's the same upstream people).
> 
> Haxe should get into Fedora at some point - see the two review
> requests below - and then I'll backport to F-9.  It ships in Debian at
> the moment so I guess there is no legal/licensing problem.
> 
> > >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460779
> > >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460780
> 
> I quite like the idea of targeting <canvas/> widgets, which is
> well-supported as of Firefox 3 & Safari, and may be partially
> supported by an IE plugin:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_(HTML_element)
> http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Rich.
> 
I like the idea of canvas as well, but it was shot down last time (a few
months ago) due to licensing of the excanvas project for IE (Apache
License v2.0).

-j