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bvl
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July 13, 2010
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Some Thoughts on TLF & FTE by Grant Skinner

  • July 13, 2010
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Grant Skinner expressed his thoughts on TLF & FTE on his blog.
I think he is spot on and I hope Adobe will agree and reconsider things in accordance with Grant's thoughts.
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Max Lord 1234
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July 15, 2010

I think a lot of the performance issues that people complain about are legitimate, but also ... there is not a lot of information out there about best practices for using the advanced TLF features. It's easy to make something that will not work efficiently if you are not careful.

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rdermer
Adobe Employee
July 13, 2010

Here's the correct link:

http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2010/07/some_thoughts_o_1.html

Pondering the whole post - certainly things that the TLF team here in Seattle has discussed many times.  Sure would be nice if AS were as lightweight and fast as native code.  Then RSLs are just delayed downloads of pieces of player.  Would render the entire discussion moot.

To help set expectations: 2.0 does not have any major rearchitecture work.  TLF is more or less the same with new features - lists and floats.  Post 1.1 we continued to work on performance and made significant additonal improvements for long documents, esp. long document scrolling, and in general for memory use reduction.  Other smaller features and performance improvements are in process as well.

Richard

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josh_on
Inspiring
July 14, 2010

I think these are all great points - probably not solvable by the TLF team alone - but rather some co-ordinated leadership in Adobe.

2 points in agreement with Grant:

1) 160k of AS in the native code of the player could be a lot less - so it won't bloat the player significantly - especially if it replaced the existing TextField code

2) The suggestion that TLF should not be used for mobile is concerning - given that anyone will be able to browse to any site on the web with their phones.  So the suggestion amounts to asking developers to write two versions of each app.  I think Grant is right - that will mean in reality that they will write one - and forget the extra functionality afforded by TLF.

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