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Flash Lite on Windows Mobile
17 March 08 02:43 PM | Jesse Ezell | 5 comment(s)

Lots of people are pointing to the release of Flash "Light" on Windows Mobile by Microsoft and claiming that this is to "hold people over" until Silverlight gets here. That is just utter BS. Who the hell has ever used a Flash Light site on their phone...

Filed under: Microsoft, Adobe, .NET, Silverlight, Flash Light

Flash + JVM = Smiles
07 May 07 08:59 PM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

At its JavaOne conference, which kicks off in San Francisco on May 8, Sun is promising a major technology unveiling, code-named "Project Indiana." My ZDNet blogging colleage Ed Burnette is speculating that Sun might unveil a head-to-head competitor...

Filed under: Flash, Adobe, .NET, Apollo, Silverlight, Sun

If Adobe was Smart...
07 May 07 06:32 PM | Jesse Ezell | 2 comment(s)

They would merge the Flex team and the Flash player team, and truely support things like MXML in the player. Why in the world do you need 2 entirely different ways to build applications in Flash? Why doesn't the Flash player itself understand Flex...

Filed under: Flash, Adobe, .NET, Flex, Silverlight

Silverlight vs. Flash: The Developer Story
03 May 07 06:03 PM | Jesse Ezell | 270 comment(s)

A few people didn’t like my proclaimation that Flash is dead. This is understandable. It is a bit premature to make such claims, but the Silverlight model is pretty amazing. As someone who works with Flash on an ongoing basis, I thought I'd...

Filed under: Flash, Microsoft, Adobe, .NET, Silverlight