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Subject: Re: Pushing Flex components thorough the GPU
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:48:06 +0100
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On 24-01-2012, at 09:48, Alex Harui wrote:

>=20
>=20
>=20
> On 1/23/12 7:36 PM, "Frank Altomare" <lostirc@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> Hi Everyone,
>>=20
>> Has anyone looked into the feasibility of pushing some of the Flex
>> components through a GPU framework such as Starling? Once Stage3D =
comes out
>> for mobile this would bring some huge improvements to controls like =
Lists.
>> Imagine all the fun we could have with GPU powred list item renderers =
:)
> It was discussed already.  Worth investigating, the biggest problem is =
that
> I do not think there is a good accessibility story.


Hi All,

Alex is right.

i thought the next info might be valuable info in this regard. Its a =
reply on a question i asked on the blog of Thibault Imbert =
(bytearray.org). He's a product manager for the flash runtime.

Hi Arnoud,
We will not add accessibility support to Stage3D, cause it is literally =
a flat surface (bitmap), and you create the DOM in AS3, so it would be =
up to the developer to implement the accessibility.
To do that, you would need to have access to low-level APIs allowing to =
talk to the underlying OS APIs for accessibility and we are not planning =
exposing those APIs for now.
Thibault

So for now using Stage3D is not viable option IMHO as an enterprise =
application framework like flex cannot do without an accessibility =
implementation.
So it's probably better to seek optimizations for flex using the =
displaylist api.=20


> --=20
> Alex Harui
> Flex SDK Team
> Adobe Systems, Inc.
> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>=20

Met vriendelijke groet,

Arnoud Bos
Artim interactive
T +31 6 246 40 216
E arnoud@artim-interactive.nl


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