On Monday 15 November 2010 00:05:24 Shamit Verma wrote: > > Flash is mpeg4 encoded which is patent encumbered by the finest > > patent trolls in the world. The decode licence expired recently, > > but was renewed a few weeks before that for a period TWO years. > > Further encoding for "commercial" purposes requires a mandatory > > licence. And the standards development body are amongst the best > > bunch of crooks one could aspire to be. > > > > No way am I going to touch flash. > > You need not worry about any of these things by a simple tweak. use > "just" the socket communication functionality of Flash. > > Leave rest of the UI to JS. Its literraly one line of code for each > API for that API to be exposed to JS. > > So you can create a couple of classes that encapsulate socket > communication. And expose those classes to JS. In that case you > would not be using any patented functionality. And this would work > with Open Source flash runtimes (VMs) that are not controlled by > Adobe. > > On the other hand, you can do the same things with Java too. I.e. > develop the UI in JS and leave only socket communication to Java.
Super. Let me check. Thanks for the tip. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
