interesting, personally im not that concerned about there being different players, although the flash player is a different kind of beast to the java vm, having different vm's for java hasnt hurt it at all, and in fact i think its helped to keep it widespread because you can choose the vm you use depending on your requirements..i.e. kaffe / blackdown if you need an opensource version or the sun one doesnt run on your platform (i had a lot of problems with the sun jvm on ppc/linux and tomcat)..
i guess the one major difference is that the java vm's are built to a published specification which undergoes a fair deal of community involvement, whereas the flash player is very much an adobe product. If the development of alternative players prompts adobe to take a more open stance with their own player then that to me is a good thing. fair enough theres a ton of details and issues that arise because of this..which player do users have installed, different capabilities, potential bad publicity for flash in general because of alternative players not implementing the same security scheme, but i think in the long run things will balance out. Personally id love to see a decent open source competitor to the player so that at last linux can start getting some of that good ole flash love. Alias wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've been lurking on the Gnash mailing list for a while, but felt > compelled to speak out when the discussion turned to the security > model. > > Currently, there's talk about completely disregarding the crossdomain > security policy in the Gnash player, leaving Gnash wide open to > crossdomain scripting attacks. I'm just wondering how people feel > about this... > > Although Gnash is a minor concern now, there is also movement from the > mozilla foundation towards bundling it with Firefox, which could mean > massive uptake of the player. This could concievably give it leverage > as an alternative (or default) install of the flash player. > > How do people feel about this? I'm definitely happy about the > existence of Gnash, but I'm worried about the potential for abuse > should the security precautions be discarded, and, more significantly, > about the potential for fragmentation of the platform. > > So my question is this - what would be the likely consequences, to the > flash ecosystem, sould an alternative flash compatible platform gain, > say (hypothetically) 20% of the market? How likely would this be to > change the way you author flash content? Does it seem like a major > concern? What if the two versions were not functionally identical? I > feel that this could be detrimental to everyone. > > Just speculating, > Alias > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > -- Martin Wood http://relivethefuture.com/choronzon _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
