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Friday, August 24, 2007 6:36 PM

Is Adobe Really Playing the Lock-in Game With Flash Video?

So, you aren't going to be locked in to buy On2's codec... but looks like despite the fact that they are using an open standard, if you want to intelligently stream the video you will be locked into buying Flash Media Server: The Motion Picture Experts...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 4:45 AM

Silverlight Forcing Macromedia to Rethink

Many Flash developers have been complaining about the choice of On2's codec over a standard like H.264 for years. Interestingly, Adobe is finally adding support for some standard video codecs in the next version of Flash. The question is, how much did...
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Saturday, June 16, 2007 3:19 AM

Flash: Now Slowing Down Your Multi-Core PC

"As I mentioned in Flash Player Update 3 we finally realized that multi-core CPUs are here to stay. So why not follow the times and take advantage of it? As most of you hard core Flash developers know, rendering is a huge bottleneck. I've seen a couple...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007 3:40 PM

Java FX: Sun Wants a Piece

"The demand continues to grow for secure, interactive content, applications, and services that run on a variety of clients. To simplify and speed the creation and deployment of high-impact content for a wide range of devices, Sun is introducing JavaFX...
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Monday, May 07, 2007 8:59 PM

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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Monday, May 07, 2007 6:32 PM

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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Thursday, May 03, 2007 6:03 PM

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...
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:46 AM

JD Confused

JD is confused about the statement made in a MS presentation with don and chris: Chris: We’ve made our intentions clear with WPF/E; we’re not pretending [like Adobe is with Flash] that it is some kind of open standard. People are saying that...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:36 PM

WPF/E Faster than Flash?

Been busy launching a new product for the last few months ( http://www.articulate.com/products/articulate-online.php ), but getting some time to hit the blogs and noticed this tidbit: "Here are results I got testing with 16 balls on my Pentium M...
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:33 AM

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...
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