Flipping this whole discussion on its head for a moment.... Adobe used to have the best SVG runtime player in the land. It was fast, had good support for the SVG standard and it was stable.
Then Adobe bought Macromedia. They discontinued development and support for their SVG player because now they had Flash! Adobe could, I'm sure, alter their Flash development tools to output SVG+Javascript. In fact, I'd be surprised if they hadn't already experimented with this. If Adobe was as smart as they think they are, they'd RIGHT NOW fast-track SVG+Javascript export into Flex and Flash IDEs. This would let them become the premier tool for developing iPhone apps, standards-based web vector animations and would encourage adoption of open standards at such a rate that it'd hobble Silverlight into the bargain! Of course that is just an idle dream, and instead they will keep pushing their proprietary solution and wait for the killer open-standards IDE that will allow developers to make full use of HTML 5 to pop up and change the market for them. Then we will see Flash become a thing of the past. eg check this out http://demo.sproutcore.com/sample_controls/ Look familiar? Look ma! NO plugins, just HTML 5! Vale Flash, you have been good to us, but your time is drawing to a close. Steve Jobs has seen the future, and Flash ain't there. Guy On 14/04/2010, at 8:42 PM, Fotis Chatzinikos wrote: > I do not think you read what i said... > > Just add an extra step that decompiles the already created arm code to a > quite difficult to read but working objective c code. > > And if that amounts to open sourcing the player what stops me for example to > get the arm bytecode decompile it myself? I do not see the problem. The only > problem i see is that mention "...originally written in C,..." ... > > Now is a decompiled arm code originaly written in C? Can you somehow find out? > > Either way i think the whole situation is plain stupid... > > With this EULA they can stop Adobe but not a freelancer that writes something > similar ... > > + Commodore/Amiga one of the best machines back then died because of closing > too many doors... > > History will tell - we will wait and see what happens > > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Tom Chiverton > <tom.chiver...@halliwells.com> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 13 Apr 2010, Fotis Chatzinikos wrote: > > What about reversing the arm byte code to objective-c? > > Read what he said. That would amount to open sourcing the Player. > > -- > Helping to centrally cluster seamless leading-edge users as part of the IT > team of the year 2010, '09 and '08 > **************************************************** > > This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. > > Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and > Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at > Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list > of members is available for inspection at the registered office together with > a list of those non members who are referred to as partners. We use the word > ?partner? to refer to a member of the LLP, or an employee or consultant with > equivalent standing and qualifications. Regulated by the Solicitors > Regulation Authority. > > CONFIDENTIALITY > > This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may > be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must > not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor > inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence > or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and > notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. > > For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.Halliwells.com. > > > > > -- > Fotis Chatzinikos, Ph.D. > Founder, > LivinData Technologies > www.styledropper.com > fotis.chatzini...@gmail.com, > >
