Re: Re: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Adobe Donating Flash Scripting Engine to Mozilla

[Teddy Payne]

I have to agree for the most part with Steve.  I really do not see this move by Adobe as a choice of weakness because they cannot compete in lateral markets.

Whenever code is contributed to Mozilla, this usually indicates a community centric approach to get more involvement in the world community environments to develop more open source solutions to create better products.

Since ActionScript offers a substantial library for Object Oriented programming for rich interfaces, I would foresee the increase in RIA applications.

Microsoft has used Flash for their public facing pages in the past.  The world's adoption of the Flash Player as the quickest adopted rich media solution shows the acceptance of ActionScript based tools.

Myself and most developers that I know have Firefox installed on their system out of personal choice and acceptance of community supported browsers that have a better history of security and adoption of web standards.

The move seems logical to give Flash to the world internet community as a demonstration of desire to push web interfaces.

Teddy

On 11/8/06, Steven Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

And som more links:

http://www.betanews.com/article/Adobe_Donates_Flash_Code_to_Mozilla/1162924245

http://news.google.com/news?q=adobe+donates+flash+scripting+engine&hl=en&lr=&client=safari&rls=en&sa=X&oi=news&ct=title

On 11/8/06, Steven Ross < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the above response is drawing some pretty large conclusions
> that aren't based on any substantiated facts. Here is an article
> concerning the move
> http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2168153/adobe-donates-flash-code
>
> article content below
> ------------------------------
>
> Adobe has donated its ActionScript Virtual Machine code to the Mozilla
> Foundation, kicking off a new open source project dubbed Tamarin.
>
> Tamarin will be a component of SpiderMonkey, the core _javascript_
> engine for Mozilla's Firefox browser.
>
> Adobe's ActionScript offers a scripting language for the company's
> Flash player. Flash technology is best known for its use by online
> video websites such as Youtube and Google Video. The language is
> similar to _javascript_ and Microsoft's JScript.
>
> Adobe and Mozilla expect that the donation will speed up the creation
> of a standards based scripting language, promote the creation of
> online applications and increase their performance on Firefox.
>
> Scripting languages are at the core of today's Web2.0 applications.
> The Ajax technology that forms the basis of Gmail and Flickr for
> instance is an acronym for Asynchronous _javascript_ and XML.
>
> The Adobe contribution is the largest code donation that Mozilla has
> received in its 3 year history.
>
> On 11/7/06, Adam Churvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Among other things, it means that when the time comes (relatively
> > soon), Adobe will most likely wash their hands clean of ColdFusion via the
> > open source route as well, rather than by trying to dump it on another
> > company.
> >
> > But it most likely also signifies that Adobe realizes its Flash-centric
> > development model and tools cannot keep pace with Microsoft's XAML-based
> > offerings.  When you compare the two, Flash-based development looks like an
> > unwieldy cobbled together tinkertoy.  And there just isn't enough Adobe
> > funding available to change that in any significant way, so they "give it up
> > to the people" and let them join in for free.
> >
> >
> >
> > Respectfully,
> >
> > Adam Phillip Churvis
> > Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer
> > BlueDragon Alliance Founding Committee
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Precia
> > To: discussion@acfug.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 4:42 PM
> > Subject: [ACFUG Discuss] Adobe Donating Flash Scripting Engine to Mozilla
> >
> > Adobe has donated the Flash scripting engine code to Mozilla. The
> > announcement was made at the Web 2.0 conference.
> >
> > Would someone enlighten me on the big picture of this gesture.
> >
> > Precia
> >
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