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The fact that Adobe acquired Macromedia was quite unfortunate for the web. Had Google acquired it, they would have probably opensourced the player code, and may
by cft 15y ago
The fact that Adobe acquired Macromedia was quite unfortunate for the web. Had Google acquired it, they would have probably opensourced the player code, and maybe contributed the AS3 rendering engine into WebKit as an alternative to javaScript, making Flash native for WebKit browsers. Maybe it's not too late for this step even now.
- cowpewter 15y agoAdobe open-sourced their AS3 engine[1] to Mozilla, instead. That potential future of JS (based on ECMAScript 4) was rejected in favor of Harmony. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarin_(JavaScript_engine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarin_(JavaScript_engine)
- zzzzzzzzz 15y agoTamarin ain't bad, but for me the main advantage of Flash right now is the relatively fast, browser-independent and (unfortunately) closed-source rendering engine.
- bsimpson 15y agoWas Macromedia openly on the market? Did Google ever seriously consider buying them?
- kreek 15y agoJust before Adobe bought Macromedia there was a lot of noise (and angst) that Microsoft would be the one to buy them.