Posted by SpaceGirl on 07/31/07 22:38

Neredbojias wrote:
> 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.
>

Shockwave is a full blown presentation and application "thing". It's
pretty large, but has full 3D and things like that in it. It can be used
for creating stand alone applications, screensavers etc etc. I guess
it's long dead now that AIR is around.

Flash is lightweight and designed for WWW primarily, the player is only
a few Mb.

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