Re: [flexcoders] Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ?

2006-11-07 Thread Ian Thomas
Hi Tom, Just came across the same thing myself - that's a stunning contribution, if I'm reading it right. It basically looks like Adobe are providing the source of the AVM2 bytecode interpreter/runtime engine to Mozilla so that Mozilla can use it as the execution engine for their

Re: [flexcoders] Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ?

2006-11-07 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 11:11, Ian Thomas wrote: It basically looks like Adobe are providing the source of the AVM2 bytecode interpreter/runtime engine to Mozilla so that Mozilla can use it as the execution engine for their ECMAscript/Javascript engine (SpiderMonkey). AVM2 is the

Re: [flexcoders] Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ?

2006-11-07 Thread John C. Bland II
The Flash Player is not open-sourced. The AVM was donated to Mozilla.http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/On 11/7/06, Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tom, Just came across the same thing myself - that's a stunning contribution, if I'm reading it

RE: [flexcoders] Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ?

2006-11-07 Thread Brian Deitte
:50 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ? On Tuesday 07 November 2006 11:11, Ian Thomas wrote: It basically looks like Adobe are providing the source of the AVM2 bytecode interpreter/runtime engine to Mozilla so that Mozilla can

Re: [flexcoders] Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ?

2006-11-07 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 15:31, Brian Deitte wrote: AVM2 format, which is one tag within the Flash format. It's a really big tag, of course, but the code won't be able to understand FlashType tags, etc, by itself- it does this through an interface with the rest of the Player code. -Brian

RE: [flexcoders] Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ?

2006-11-07 Thread Brian Deitte
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ? On Tuesday 07 November 2006 15:31, Brian Deitte wrote: AVM2 format, which is one tag within the Flash format. It's a really big tag, of course, but the code won't be able to understand FlashType