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Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:55:38 +0000
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Subject: Re: GPU / DisplayList / Future of Flex
From: Matthew Poole <mattjpoole@gmail.com>
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>> Such a thing is possible, although there may be issues around
accessibility
are you thinking screen readers or something else?

On 13 January 2012 00:42, Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com> wrote:

>
>
>
> On 1/12/12 1:26 AM, "Arnoud Bos" <arnoud@artim-interactive.nl> wrote:
>
> > So i tend to think that Adobe dropped flex for this reason too (there
> are of
> > course more reasons, but this one is never outspoken).
> > Performance might never come close to native as it's al based on the
> > displaylist.
> I doubt that was factor in anyone's mind.  Adobe did not "drop" Flex, Adobe
> is donating it to Apache.
>
> > So i wonder could the future version of Flex use a similar approach? I
> think
> > if we can pull it of to render on the GPU it would be a massive
> performance
> > gain. It would give Flex an extra egde.
> > I know there are many people on this list with deeper understanding of
> the
> > flash player so please enlighten me. Is such an approach even possible
> for
> > Flex?
> Such a thing is possible, although there may be issues around
> accessibility.
>
> --
> Alex Harui
> Flex SDK Team
> Adobe Systems, Inc.
> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>
>

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