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Adobe Drops Licensing Fees, Gives Away Flash For Devices

• deleted 18y ago
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• swombat 18y ago
  This was published back in April?? Weird, I hadn't heard of it.
• tuukkah 18y ago
  The Flash Player is still proprietary, and Gnash is far from being a full replacement. Hopefully, HTML 5 video and faster DOM graphics will replace Flash soon.
  • aaronblohowiak 18y ago
    Ew, HTML5. What we really need is for IE to support SVG. Instead, they made silverlight.
    • tuukkah 18y ago
      With "faster DOM graphics", I meant to include SVG. I can't believe IE still has no native support for it :-( I see that depending on your requirements, there are partial SVG and Canvas implementations for IE in JavaScript, as well as higher-level JS APIs that work across the browsers. http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/03/svg-in-ie/ http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/03/svg-in-ie/ http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/ http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/ http://www.liquidx.net/plotkit/ http://www.liquidx.net/plotkit/
      • tuukkah 18y ago
        Took me a while to find the link again, but this work to implement Silverlight in JS and SVG is closest to flash I've seen for building RIAs: http://github.com/toshok/firelight/wikis/home http://github.com/toshok/firelight/wikis/home
• ashishk 18y ago
  You have to give these guys credit for AIR. I'm very impressed by the applications I have seen built on it-- especially balsamiq. I'm definitely looking forward to building on it.