"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 sure why they think that desktop based apps - connected...

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 and Apollo to ease the migration path. However...

"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 applications. Upside: much of the logic engine in...

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. I've long had the opinion that Flash just isn't...

Via JD : "Over the last couple of weeks, Adobe’s Voice over IP plans for Flash have been leaking out with regularity, as Adobe representatives met with companies at VON. Today’s feature on GigaOm is a nice summary." [1] Interesting idea that could be very cool... but if the guys...

On2, the guys behind the latest video codec in Flash, are celebrating some live streaming stuff. I agree, the codec is nice. What isn't nice is the rediculous licensing costs to use the codec. Note to Macromedia/Adobe: if you are going to try to make an open file format, write the codecs yourself...

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 [2] http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006...

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 talked about their first "date" at a cheesy Italian...

In today's non-Microsoft related news: Adobe missed earnings by a bit and adjusted projections downward: [1] http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200606/Q206Earnings.html Shortly after being made President of Worldwide operations, Macromedia's CEO, Stephen Elop got the boot: [2] http...

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. But I wonder.... if Microsoft bundles WPF/E with...