Posted by Neredbojias on 07/31/07 01:40

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:00:22
GMT SpaceGirl scribed:

> Neredbojias wrote:
>> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Mon, 30 Jul 2007
>> 15:11:22 GMT Travis Newbury scribed:
>>
>>> On Jul 30, 1:04 am, Neredbojias <monstersquas...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> So saying, the main trouble I have with Flash is
>>>> that it's still proprietary. If Abode were smart, they'd
>>>> open-source it.
>>> Do you want the player to be open source? Adobe (and Macromedia
>>> before them) have always given out the specs for creating SWF files.
>>> Anyone can build a SWF file using a text editor if you like. You do
>>> not need Adobe Flash to create and SWF file, or to build a custom
>>> tool that will create SWF files.
>>>
>>> I do not agree that the player should be open source. I like having
>>> a single source for the player.
>>>
>>> Why do you think they would they be smart to open source it?
>>
>> You 'n Hatter seem to agree on this so perhaps I mis-spoke. Guess I
>> just want it to be free, like html and css and javascript, so
>> everybody can "hop on the train" and really test its capabilities.
>> Right now, it reminds me too much of Active-X and like debuncles.
>>
>
> It is free. You can download Flex for free, and take a look. There's
> an opensource project around the Player too (I think!?). Anyway there
> are plenty of ways of creating Flash these days, and you don't need to
> spend a single $.

Okay, I'll just hafta dig into it and stop procrastinating. Btw, regarding
a comment you made up thare ^ somewhere (-and to show my action-media
ignorance,) what's the difference between Shockwave and Flash? I thought
they were virtually the same 'cept maybe for versions.

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Neredbojias
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