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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#SwfDec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#SwfDec Adobe actually made their Flash money from tooling and supporti
by robmcm 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#SwfDec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#SwfDec
Adobe actually made their Flash money from tooling and supporting services.
If they open sourced the spec and turned it into a commitie it would be in the same mess as HTML 5 and lose it's advantages (fast development, adoption for example).
- davexunit 13y agoIt suffers from the biggest disadvantage of all: being proprietary. Flash is a massive wart on the free web.
- robmcm 13y agoThat's a double edged sword, proprietary software moves much much faster which is why plugins like flash came about. They plugged the gaps required that the web working groups couldn't agree on. If proprietary was such a big disadvantage why would it exist at all?
- davexunit 13y agoIt's a disadvantage for the user, and an advantage for the business. The user is the one that matters here.
- robmcm 13y agoWas it a disadvantage for all those people who got to play great games or watch video on the web for years before HTML 5 added the canvas or video tag? Would we have half the features in HTML 5 if they hadn't been proved by plugins or implemented as experimental by proprietary browsers?