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I have a feeling that if Adobe would publish detailed Flash file format specs when Flash started to decline, there would have been separate player implementatio
by theamk 9y ago
I have a feeling that if Adobe would publish detailed Flash file format specs when Flash started to decline, there would have been separate player implementations and Flash might still be alive today.
Of course, this also means alternative editor implementations, and this decreases business value. This is also a lot of work. And at some point, it became too late -- if format would be published today, very few people would care. So I am not surprised Adobe decided to let the Flash die, rather than open it.
- fenomas 9y agoThe SWF format has been open since 2008. Here's the current spec (PDF): http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/swf/pdf/swf-file-format-spec.pdf http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/swf/p... (edit: removing a now-obsolete comment wondering why I'd been downvoted)
- tjalfi 9y agoIggy[0] is a third-party Flash implementation. [0] http://www.radgametools.com/iggy.htm http://www.radgametools.com/iggy.htm
- robmcm 9y agoAs state by other commentators it was an open standard. However the main issues other vendors faced were Adobe's control of the standard (no TC39) and the use of patents in the technology (compression etc).