NB: I cant get more than 1 frame every 2 second for the streaming video on JavaFX home… there are some serious performance issue
I have enought love for Java and can defend it, but for JavaFX not yet…
didn’t know a (official) linux runtime was available yet?
The demo’s I have run from the javafx side all seemed a hell of a lot better then any flash video I’ve come across. load was well peanuts compared to flash taxing the pc to the max. picture quality was better but, well somewhat sloppy.
Anyways what you saw was probably a bug - which is where flash is still ahead. Still quite some of them around.
The thing about Apple and iPhone is, they focused on the user before the developer. How long was it before OS 2.0 came out? Apple spent tons of time making sure it just works before releasing the API to developers.
Sun is doing the opposite - focusing on the developer before the user. They are creating the API before fixing the show-stopping bugs (video playback bugs, browser crash bugs, etc.). JavaFX is actually a pretty cool language, and has some cool tech, but the bugs and trust dialogs make me run away in screaming horror.
It dones’t need any extra runtime, its using jre. There is no SDK for linux though.
Some things wont work on Linux, like the media player.