Adobe To Donate Flex SDK To Open Source Community

New submitter ProbablyJoe writes "InfoQ reports that Adobe is to donate its web application SDK, Flex, to an 'an established open source foundation' — suspected to either be the Open Spoon Foundation (who have been working on an open source fork of Flex), or the more established Apache Foundation. Adobe has stated on its blog that they consider HTML5 to be a better technology for the future than its own Flex platform, causing frustration among developers who have used the platform for enterprise applications. Is this a generous contribution to the open source community, or just Adobe offloading another failing technology?"

Adobe Edge

[tepples]

Based on what I've read elsewhere, it's called Adobe Edge, and it's supposed to be an authoring tool for animations to be played back using JavaScript and HTML5's 2D canvas. Tim Langdell will be pissed [wikipedia.org].

Re:NO NO NO

[Merk42]

You do realize HTML5 is far far more than just a video player right? Even so "HTML5 Video" doesn't inherently mean WebM nor H.264 as the format isn't part of the standard.

Re:Trash The Flash, Keep The Flex

[wonkavader]

Agreed. Flex really isn't bad.

I did a real business app in it. It was not my choice, but once the choice was made, Flex turned out to be not terrible.

Not a bad language. Not too bad a development environment. But it needed some growing up, needed some changes to the event model, needed a little more coherency. But it worked, and it was pleasant to write in.

Re:FOSS attitude fail.

[pebs]

Flex was already open source.. They are just pushing the responsibility of maintaining it to the community. Now if they were open sourcing the Flash Player, I would commend them for that as it could ease the pain a little of those stuck relying on this legacy technology.