Well, it all sort of depends on the execution. Different competing Flash players sounds like an utter nightmare to me regardless of test suites or what have you - there will always be issues of compatibility. I can easily imagine a future where everyone's doing "switch(majorVersion)" and griping about how Microsoft's Flash Player STILL won't execute the Delegate() command properly even though the issue's been known for years. It really creeps me out.
HOWEVER, opensourcing it might have other benefits. Dream scenario would be where we still have our One Unified Flash Player but all the major browser vendors integrate it tightly with their browser. We get the script language to rule them all. We get a better linux implementation. We get better tools to build and manipulate flash from the command line. Let's hope for the best :) - J -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Heidegger Sent: den 7 november 2006 12:57 To: Open Source Flash Mailing List Subject: Re: [osflash] Tamarin! I have been impressed of what the w3c managed to get done with just a proper specification (html, xhtml), a matching validator and good examples. Of course there were problems but in comparison to the hell created by microsoft and netscape in the early days of html it gods sake. I have no problem for different vendors if they match in execution (keyword: Testsuites) but may be optimized for the platform or integrate addition API or have performance boosts (or whatsoever). The Problem is that the .swf Format would need to be valid and every Player needs to be certified. Of course there is a chance of misgrow and problems but there is also competition and support from various sides - I mean: It would be funny wouldn't it to access flash elements via javascript in firefox with one default api for html as well as dom nodes without loss of speed or anything else. yours Martin. _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
