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Flash Lite on Windows Mobile

Lots of people are pointing to the release of Flash "Light" on Windows Mobile by Microsoft and claiming that this is to "hold people over" until Silverlight gets here. That is just utter BS. Who the hell has ever used a Flash Light site on their phone...

Safari on Windows

One less reason to buy a Mac for testing. Go download the beta: http://www.apple.com/downloads/ With Adobe also pushing WebKit (Safari Core) in Apollo, looks like we might end up really having to support 3 browsers now.

Flash + JVM = Smiles

At its JavaOne conference, which kicks off in San Francisco on May 8, Sun is promising a major technology unveiling, code-named "Project Indiana." My ZDNet blogging colleage Ed Burnette is speculating that Sun might unveil a head-to-head competitor...
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If Adobe was Smart...

They would merge the Flex team and the Flash player team, and truely support things like MXML in the player. Why in the world do you need 2 entirely different ways to build applications in Flash? Why doesn't the Flash player itself understand Flex...
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Silverlight vs. Flash: The Developer Story

A few people didn’t like my proclaimation that Flash is dead. This is understandable. It is a bit premature to make such claims, but the Silverlight model is pretty amazing. As someone who works with Flash on an ongoing basis, I thought I'd...

Props to Adobe

Flex is going to be open sourced! http://ajaxian.com/archives/adobe-announces-that-it-will-be-opening-flex-under-mozilla-license http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex:Open_Source How long till someone ports it to .NET?
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Marc on Apollo

"When will Adobe/Macromedia learn? Why would someone want to lock themselves into a proprietary, closed platform - like Apollo? Unfortunately none of the (so-called) analyst, experts out there plugging Adobe - has brought this up yet. I’m not...

Adobe Confusion

As I pointed out earlier, Adobe has just donated their action script VM to Mozilla to be used in Firefox. This is really cool. For one, the VM is supposed to provide huge performance boosts. Secondly, it will ensure that your JS code works in both Firefox...

Mozilla + Adobe = Love

"Tamarin project: Big news. Adobe contributes a significant amount of scripting-engine source code to Mozilla Foundation. In essence, the high-performance scripting in Adobe Flash Player 9 will soon be available in Firefox, Thunderbird, and other...

Adobe Apollo: First Impressions

The first glimpse of Adobe Apollo has arrived: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1551903488172905143 (via Mike Chambers http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2006/11/video_leveragin.html ) The HTML + Flash integration is definitely sweet....
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