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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...
AJAX > Flash in 2007
" Ektron and SitePoint did a survey of 5,000 web developers over the US summer, and have just released the results in a report entitled The State of Web Development 2006/2007 . It's packed full of useful data, even in the 25-page preview (which...
Macromedia Central: A Complete Failure?
It's been out for years now. Guess what, on the official central page, you can chose from a vast array of 22 central applications now (including the ones Macromedia released back in 2003), the last of which was made available over a year ago. This...
SVG is Dead
Via JD, Adobe has killed all future SVG player development. With Adobe out of the game due to Flash and Microsoft out of the game with WPF/E, we are one step closer to SVG being know as the vector graphics betamax. [1] http://www.adobe.com/svg/eol.html...
Business Week on Elop
Via JD : "In January, Stephen Elop sat on a chair in a plush conference room and talked about his decision to sell Macromedia to Adobe ( ADBE ). He was calm and jovial, describing the process of Adobe Chief Executive Bruce Chizen "courting" him. Elop...
SWF, is it Really Open?
So, Adobe is threatening to sue Microsoft in regard to supporting PDF and XPS in Office... I wonder what is going to happen with the supposedly open SWF format... It's a good thing Microsoft didn't follow JD's advice and integrate it into their products...
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