When I found Sprouts last year, it seemed the coolest thing
imaginable, and the answer to a huge set of issues. I'm not a highly
skilled programmer, though; I have too many hats; and my sprouts
efforts have been too long on the back burner.
As fall settles in and I look forward, I'm now wondering if Sprouts
even is a future. The toolset is great of course, it's the output that
concerns me: SWF.
It seems accepted at this point that iPhones, iPads, and IPods will
simply never play a SWF. No matter what. Moreover, pick up an Android
Galaxy and the average user will see whitespace where a SWF should be,
even after downloading plugins.
More recently, Adobe has released (previews) Edge and Wallaby (http://
www.webmonkey.com/2011/08/review-adobes-edge-offers-web-animation-sans-flash/
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http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/03/adobe-unveils-wallaby-flash-to-html5-converter/
)as indications that they're losing the war.
Am I missing something? You all know much more than I. Where's the
right path?