On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Levi Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adobe Flash: > Proprietary runtime provided by a single vendor
The VM at the core of FP9 is Tamarin. Developed by Adobe and then open sourced and managed by Mozilla. The VM will be included in FF3, and is the reason that FF3 has such wicked fast javascript execution times. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ Flash Player 9 is proprietary, but they've open sourced the core of the runtime. Progress. > Proprietary language (though based on a standard one) > Linux binary-only support from Adobe > > Microsoft Silverlight: > Standard language infrastructure (ECMA-334) > Standard languages (ECMA-334, Iron Python, Iron Ruby, etc.) > Microsoft binary-only runtime for Windows/MacOS > Novell supplied, MS sanctioned runtime for Linux (open source) Very interesting. I checked out the Moonlight screencast (ironically thanks to Adobe, flash player, and YouTube) and was really impressed. Moonlight seems to be very functional. The one thing that would hold me back from Moonlight/Mono development on Linux would be decent dev tools. Seems like you're always at a disadvantage in the MonoDevelop world compared to VS.NET. -Bryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
