Wow! Maybe is not the whole Flash Player NOW, but it will be in the long term when it would be difficult to find swfs with versions under 9, am i right?
And opening the source of the ASVM2 would allow a public bug list, isn't it? And people porting that player to platforms where right now the official version is 6 (psp) or 7 (FlashLite2 or PPC player), right? Wow again! On 11/7/06, Johan Halse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Juan Delgado - Zárate http://zarate.tv http://dandolachapa.com _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
