I almost got "excited" about some forward thinking from Adobe here. Rakshith just posted this on Twitter:
Take this #ColdFusion survey to let #Adobe know features that need to be deprecated/retained/replaced https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XCKLJXHI thought "woohoo! let's get rid of some cruft". And you should go fill it out.
However it's disappointingly uncontroversial. It doesn't ask if it's about time we retired <cfform> and stuff like that, no. It asks about this stuff:
- CFSPRYDATASET
- ColdFusion actionscript functions (CF.query, CF.http)
- CFAPPLET
- CFPresentation for flash presentation
- XML forms
- CFTree and CFGrid with format="Applet"
- CFDocument for FlashPaper
- Report Builder
- CORBA
- CFREPORT
- Flash Forms
- Live Cycle Data Services Integration (not to do with PDFs)
- AIR Integration (Ability to save in an offline database and sync changes with the server using AIR)
Surely (?) the answer in 95% of situations is gonna be "yeah, get rid". And does that even need to be asked? If the intent is simply to deprecate them (remember: deprecate means "still works, but won't be updated; might get removed". Like how parameterExists() is deprecated - and has been for a decade - but still works!), then there's no need to measure that no-one needs this stuff.
I wish they had asked some more contraversial questions like "shall we ditch <cfform>?", "<cftable>... who uses that?". "<cfinsert>? we're getting rid. That OK?". Stuff like that.
But anyway... it is a good start.
Ask us more stuff, Rakshith! And please... let us know the results. It's interesting stuff.
Cheers.
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Adam
