nascentone

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   by nascentone 15y ago

   Saying they are "very different" because of closures is hyperbolic, but at any rate, yes, AS1 had closures like JS.
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   by nascentone 15y ago

   Yes there's a lot that a company could do fake a good OOP architecture which compiles down to standards soup, but such solutions tend to result in tons of extra generated crap. Dart compiles to JS... with a a simple "Hello World" app coming
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   by nascentone 15y ago

   Designers love Flash because it gives you a canvas to express yourself on. Standards do not. If you think it does, I would predict you aren't a designer, because there's a big difference between technical parity and realistic results. I can
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   by nascentone 15y ago

   I knew exactly what I was doing with Flash, it was not a deal with anyone. I desperately want to do cool stuff with standards, believe me I'm in some ways I want good standards more than self-proclaimed standards advocates (I've even drafte
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   by nascentone 15y ago

   And I completely agree that Adobe lost their way. I've felt this way for several years now.
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   by nascentone 15y ago

   Wow. Certainly a different perspective. I thought Flash really changed the way we view the web for the better (video, audio, animation, interaction) pushed by artists who wanted these things for their own creative fulfillment, and standards
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   by nascentone 15y ago

   Thanks for your story, it's good to hear some success from someone who felt the same as I do now. I certainly hope I get past that hump, but after 2 years of using jQuery I haven't yet. I can see there being a turning point in 4-5 years, bu
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   by nascentone 15y ago

   Ha, +1 point for snarkiness, -10 points for thinking that walk cycle experiment is a comparable example to even average Flash animation work, +9 points hoping for the love of the internet that you were just trying to make a laugh = net wort
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   by nascentone 15y ago

   "I don't know any Flash devs with CS degrees. They're all artists and designers and musicians who somehow got into development." Exactly. And this is why Flash was so awesome. Standards are the opposite side of the spectrum, full of the mos
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    by nascentone 15y ago

    I like your optimism about Javascript's future, but I think it's a bit naive. Even if Javascript was AS3 today, we would still have to deal with a lack of cross browser consistency, the ancient text document oriented DOM, a lack of the same
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    by nascentone 15y ago

    And to be clear, I am moaning about the language AND the DOM, but I would likely moan less if not for the DOM and the multiple interpretations of the language.
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    by nascentone 15y ago

    [Context: the deleted comment suggested we don't know Javascript because we were "moaning about using it" and we should "learn Javascript before knocking it"] I know Javascript, your comment suggests you don't know ActionScript's history: A
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    by nascentone 15y ago

    "Just keep making awesome things with whatever tools you have at your disposal." This is what's depressing, though. I want to make awesome things, but HTML is simply an inferior and more restrictive platform than Flash. The thought of progr