A Letter to Adobe Flash: At Least Consider Open Source
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A Letter to Adobe Flash: At Least Consider Open Source
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Re: A Letter to Adobe Flash: At Least Consider Open Source
#2More style than content.
Re: A Letter to Adobe Flash: At Least Consider Open Source
#3In principle a good idea (or just a logic step). It's kind of stupid that they haven't done that a long time ago already. It would have solved any performance, arch support, security or whatever problems and also the whole debate about openness. It would have changed the view on Adobe/Flash a lot for many people.
Although, if it happens now, I'm not really sure what Flash can offer over HTML5. They are both almost equal in features (with different concentrations though). Maybe Flash is still a bit more advanced in development about multimedia, so it maybe would have some improvements to implement something in Flash (if it is open) but I really cannot think of anything which would be interesting for me personally which cannot be done in a good/better way in HTML5.
Re: A Letter to Adobe Flash: At Least Consider Open Source
#4There is a link to a petition in the comments, although few signatures. http://www.openplayer.net/
Re: A Letter to Adobe Flash: At Least Consider Open Source
#5It's the logical thing for Adobe to do. Jobs is complaining about the proprietary platform, performance issues and all that. Now it time to turn it around.
Adobe will still sell all their tools, they'll still have legions of flash programmers, they'll run on every mobile device except the iPhone.
What's so important about keeping the flash engine closed source?
Re: A Letter to Adobe Flash: At Least Consider Open Source
#6It's the logical thing for Adobe to do. Jobs is complaining about the proprietary platform, performance issues and all that. Now it time to turn it around. Adobe will still sell all their tools, they'll still have legions of flash programmers, they'll run on every mobile device except the iPhone. What's so important about keeping the flash engine closed source?
I agree completely and they're halfway there so it makes plenty of sense to take the last step - there are already open source and commercial alternative IDEs like FlashDevelop and FDT.
Open sourcing the flashplayer will rapidly make them a standard on every platform instead of being a defacto standard on Windows and generally poor results outside of it.
Open sourcing the FLA format can only help developers ... every new version of Flash devs everywhere pray that this time Adobe'll do nothing more than just fix everything and the threat of someone else doing that for us that might be the motivation Adobe needs to do it themselves.
Re: A Letter to Adobe Flash: At Least Consider Open Source
#7In principle a good idea (or just a logic step). It's kind of stupid that they haven't done that a long time ago already. It would have solved any performance, arch support, security or whatever problems and also the whole debate about openness. It would have changed the view on Adobe/Flash a lot for many people. Although, if it happens now, I'm not really sure what Flash can offer over HTML5. They are both almost eq…
Flash/Silverlight/etc are very agile, it's May now and there's still plenty of time for any of them to roll out significant new features this year while browser vendors and the W3 debate which video format to use and consumers click ignore on the update your browser screen for the 1000th time.
Re: A Letter to Adobe Flash: At Least Consider Open Source
#8In principle a good idea (or just a logic step). It's kind of stupid that they haven't done that a long time ago already. It would have solved any performance, arch support, security or whatever problems and also the whole debate about openness. It would have changed the view on Adobe/Flash a lot for many people. Although, if it happens now, I'm not really sure what Flash can offer over HTML5. They are both almost eq…
Flash/Silverlight/etc are very agile, it's May now and there's still plenty of time for any of them to roll out significant new features this year while browser vendors and the W3 debate which video format to use and consumers click ignore on the update your browser screen for the 1000th time.
There is plenty of time for them to improve this year.
But since it's taken 3 years to get into beta, I'm not very confident that rapid improvement will be happening.
Re: A Letter to Adobe Flash: At Least Consider Open Source
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flash/Silverlight/etc are very agile, it's May now and there's still plenty of time for any of them to roll out significant new features this year while browser vendors and the W3 debate which video format to use and consumers click ignore on the update your browser screen for the 1000th time.
There is plenty of time for them to improve this year. But since it's taken 3 years to get into beta, I'm not very confident that rapid improvement will be happening.
Right, but that's cause Adobe sucks at building software. But they do have the ability to deploy updates that actually reach consumers in a timely fashion, massively faster than any W3 spec or browser vendor can even dream of pushing something through.
Everything Adobe, Microsoft, Unity etc push to their own platforms between HTML5 and HTML6 is stuff that HTML5 doesn't have and can't include until the next release beyond fragmented and browser-specific implementations.
Re: A Letter to Adobe Flash: At Least Consider Open Source
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is plenty of time for them to improve this year. But since it's taken 3 years to get into beta, I'm not very confident that rapid improvement will be happening.
Right, but that's cause Adobe sucks at building software. But they do have the ability to deploy updates that actually reach consumers in a timely fashion, massively faster than any W3 spec or browser vendor can even dream of pushing something through. Everything Adobe, Microsoft, Unity etc push to their own platforms between HTML5 and HTML6 is stuff that HTML5 doesn't have and can't include until the next release be…
But the ability to do so still doesn't matter unless the code gets improved in the first place...
As an aside, there won't be an "HTML6." HTML will become versionless from here on out.