Hi Aral, I seem to recall someone at MM/Adobe mentioning that there was such a specification, but that not many third parties (or possibly even no-one) had ever reached it?
Or was I just hallucinating... The other issue is a licencing one - for a GPL project to remain "pure" from a lgal point of view, they must not enter into any binding agreements with Adobe, which currently the format specifications require. Alias On 1/31/06, Aral Balkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Claus, > > This is a very valid point and perhaps the way forward is for Adobe to > publish a specification for the Flash Player so that independent parties > can create players that can be certified by Adobe. Of course, the > down-side to this for Adobe will be the loss in income from creating > Flash Players for certain platforms (eg. mobile.) The upside is that > they will be able to control the specification and thus stop > incompatible players from being released (or at least certified.) > > Aral > > Claus Wahlers wrote: > > >>And if an alternative player does not differ from that of > >>Macromedia/Adobe, then what's the point of it? > >> > >> > > > >the flash player is not available (nor free) for many *nix flavors and > >platforms > >cheers, > >claus. > ><snip> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
