RE: [flexcoders] Re: Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ?

[Gordon Smith]

Microsoft will almost surely support ECMScript 4 / _javascript_ 2 in IE when the language committee finishes the specification of the language. They're participating on this committee along with Adobe and Mozilla. I believe they're also free to use the open-soruce implementation that we're donating, if they don't want to do their own implementation.   - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mitchgrasso Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:17 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ? So maybe I am being a little cynical, but it seems that this could be Adobe's secret machiavellian plan to drive further differentiation in AJAX/_javascript_ compatibility between IE and Firefox, resulting in webapp engineers getting frustrated with porting between the two browsers and migrating to Flex :-) --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com, "ben.clinkinbeard" <ben.clinkinbeard@...> wrote: > > Once again, Gordon takes the cake for the best clear and concise > explanation of a topic. I have read at least 20 descriptions of this > stuff today and this is the first one that has made complete sense. > (The others ranged from 'almost getting it' to 'no clue what the hell > that means'.) Thanks Gordon! > > Ben > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com, "Gordon Smith" <gosmith@> wrote: > > > > This is a major contribution from Adobe to the open-source community, > > but let me try to clarify what it is and what is isn't. The code being > > open-sourced is for the core AS3 language, not for anything specific to > > Flash. The contributed engine is able to execute a program that uses > > core classes of the language like Array, Date, RegExp, and XML. It is > > not be able to execute a program that use Flash-specific classes like > > Sprite, TextField, SharedObject, or URLLoader. In particular it supports > > no Flash graphics. > > > > Mozilla will use this engine by adding browser-DOM classes such as > > Window, Document, Form, Anchor, etc., which are the "domain objects" > > that a browser manipulates, in the same way that Flash uses this engine > > by adding classes for its domain objects such as Sprites. Once this is > > done, webapp developers will be able to use AS3/ES4 as a fast, > > type-checked, object-oriented "_javascript_" if they want to. > > > > So this has nothing to do with putting Flash into Firefox. Firefox users > > will still require the Flash plugin to run SWFs. But contributing a > > high-performance virtual machine for a type-checked, object- oriented > > language is still a big deal! > > > > - Gordon > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com] On > > Behalf Of jrunrandy > > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 5:28 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com > > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ? > > > > > > > > Here is my understanding: > > > > Adobe is not open sourcing the Flash Player. Adobe *is* contributing > > source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine, the scripting > > language engine component within Flash Player. ActionScript 3.0 runs > > on the Tamarin virtual machine in Flash Player 9. > > > > I'm sure there are others who can clarify this further. > > > > Randy Nielsen > > Flex Documentation Manager > > > __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Software development tool Software development Software development services Home design software Software development company Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___