> I agree that the long-term strategy should be to support Gnash and/or > get Adobe to open up their Flash player.
I thought Adobe already opened up. From: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/061206.html > Wednesday, December 6, 2006 > The Adobe Flash Player is almost universally available on desktop > computers, yet many people are not even aware of its existence or of > its capabilities. > It is a client application that is accessible within most web browsers > and features support for vector and raster graphics, audio and video > streaming and a scripting language; ActionScript. > The scripting language is executed by a virtual machine (VM), the > internals of which, will be the focus of this talk. > I will also talk about Adobe's recent release of the source code of > this VM to the open source community along with Mozilla's plan for > embedding this module into the Firefox web browser. Am I missing something? My memory from the talk is that ActionScript == ECMAScript == Javascript. Flash sends a compiled version of the script so it's obfuscated enough that you can't easily see what it is doing. Here is Mozilla's version of the press release: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-11-07.html SAN FRANCISCO -- November 7, 2006 -- Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and the Mozilla Foundation, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Internet, today announced that Adobe has contributed source code for the ActionScript^(TM) Virtual Machine, the powerful standards-based scripting language engine in Adobe® Flash® Player, to the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla will host a new open source project, called Tamarin, to accelerate the development of this standards-based approach for creating rich and engaging Web applications. The Tamarin project will implement the final version of the ECMAScript Edition 4 standard language, which Mozilla will use within the next generation of SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox®, Mozilla's free Web browser. As of today, developers working on SpiderMonkey will have access to the Tamarin code in the Mozilla CVS repository via the project page located at www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/. Contributions to the code will be managed by a governing body of developers from both Adobe and Mozilla. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel