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Yea... think of anybody trying to create a new web-enabled hardware. In addition of getting a browser working right, they would be at Adobe's mercy for providin

by tx 18y ago

Yea... think of anybody trying to create a new web-enabled hardware. In addition of getting a browser working right, they would be at Adobe's mercy for providing a flash plug in for it. Now imagine if Silverlight becomes hot together with JavaFX. How many private corporate interests will you have to deal with to support your platform then? Because you'll need A LOT of runtime support to be a useful web surfing tool. Yet another obstacle towards truly mobile web. Flash, Silverlight, and other proprietary "extenders" all need to be replaced with extended standard CSS/JS/XML solution, supported by all browsers out of the box.

Herring 18y ago
No kidding. You should see what i went through trying to get flash on ppc & amd64 linux
tokipin 18y ago
hey silverlight is actually pretty cool. at least, i don't need a $600 program to develop for it
- sanswork 18y ago
  You don't need a $600 program to develop flash either. osflash.org has one alternative ide and there are a few others.
  - tokipin 18y ago
    ah, cool. i was under the impression flash has always been closed
    - sanswork 18y ago
      They released the details of Flash with the condition you couldn't create clients. So the Flash clients are all Adobe, but you can write software to create Flash stuff.
  - breck 18y ago
    Out of the dozens of IDE's listed here, what's your recommendation?
    - sanswork 18y ago
      I can't give an honest recommendation since I use Adobes software. But I've heard flashdevelop.org is pretty nice.
    - oz 18y ago
      OpenLaszlo can create rich internet applications in its own LZX format, which can compile down to Flash or DHTML. Cool stuff.