(http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200611/110706Mozilla.html)
I can't work out if this is effectively open souring the Flash Player (as Sun
is doing with Java) or not.
It seems they've opened up the bits that take Flash bytecode (a .swf) and turn
it into native code
Hi Tom,
Just came across the same thing myself - that's a stunning
contribution, if I'm reading it right.
It basically looks like Adobe are providing the source of the AVM2
bytecode interpreter/runtime engine to Mozilla so that Mozilla can use
it as the execution engine for their
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 11:11, Ian Thomas wrote:
It basically looks like Adobe are providing the source of the AVM2
bytecode interpreter/runtime engine to Mozilla so that Mozilla can use
it as the execution engine for their ECMAscript/Javascript engine
(SpiderMonkey).
AVM2 is the
The Flash Player is not open-sourced. The AVM was donated to Mozilla.http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/On 11/7/06,
Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Tom,
Just came across the same thing myself - that's a stunning
contribution, if I'm reading it
:50 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ?
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 11:11, Ian Thomas wrote:
It basically looks like Adobe are providing the source of the AVM2
bytecode interpreter/runtime engine to Mozilla so that Mozilla can
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 15:31, Brian Deitte wrote:
AVM2 format, which is one tag within the Flash format. It's a really
big tag, of course, but the code won't be able to understand FlashType
tags, etc, by itself- it does this through an interface with the rest of
the Player code. -Brian
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ?
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 15:31, Brian Deitte wrote:
AVM2 format, which is one tag within the Flash format. It's a really
big tag, of course, but the code won't be able to understand FlashType
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