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Therein lays the problem. If Adobe would release an affordable version of Flash, or if any of the open source SWF compilers out there could keep up with the lat
by snorkel 18y ago
Therein lays the problem. If Adobe would release an affordable version of Flash, or if any of the open source SWF compilers out there could keep up with the latest Actionscript specs, then more developers would get hooked on it. But I guess Adobe is fat, dumb, and happy with cornering the market on graphics tools that it doesn't need to concern itself too much about growing the Flash developer community. Adobe should think it over because the growing popularity of <canvas> and next generation HTML is going to take large chunks of mindshare away from Flash development.
- allenbrunson 18y agoi think adobe's position is: if they completely opened up the flash format, then they couldn't make any money off of it. they give away the player for free, so they make their money from the developer tools. if they opened up the .fla format, then they'd get killed by competitors, because flash cs3 sucks. so it wouldn't help them any to grow the flash platform, if they lose their ability to make money off of it.