Adobe's Flash player already powers YouTube, Hulu, and roughly 99% of all the video you see on the web. But apparently that isn't good enough for Adobe, because the company has launched the Open Screen Project, with the goal of creating a Flash standard that will work equally well on a variety of devices, including computers, cellphones, and set top boxes.
Adobe will be removing restrictions on the use of SWF and FLV formats, will publish device porting information for the Flash Player, and will remove licensing fees for the next releases of Adobe AIR and the Adobe Flash Player for devices. Currently you can get the computer versions for free, but you have to pay for the mobile versions.
In other words, Adobe is opening up its proprietary formats, releasing technical information, and generally making it a lot easier for developers to write Flash content that will play seamlessly on any device.
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5-01-2008 @ 10:52AM
Todd said...
Has potential, but been burned by Orwellian double speak from Adobe pertaining to "open source" ( Encoding software is thousands of dollars ). We'll see...
Seriously doubt this will have any effect on Cupertino's vendor locking the iPhone's SDK to Quicktime. I CAN HAZ FLASH ON MU IPHONE?
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5-01-2008 @ 11:37AM
Ethan said...
Just the small hurdle of looking terrible.
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5-01-2008 @ 1:23PM
Oleg said...
Not to get grammar nazi on the author, but you must pay more attention to the spelling. So far I have spotted son instead of soon in this post, and youw ant instead of you want in the starburn Post. Cmon! This is a reputable blog! :)
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5-01-2008 @ 1:24PM
Brad Linder said...
Thanks. I just started editing posts in IE7 instead of FF2 (it's a long story, but the short version is that our blog editor doesn't work with FF3, and I really wanted to upgrade from FF2), and so I lost my old spellchecker. I'm working on a system that will prevent these mistakes -- perhaps more thorough proofreading before hitting the publish button. :)
5-01-2008 @ 10:20PM
Quikboy said...
@Brad Linder : Might I suggest you download IE7 Pro? It's a free add-on with many features such as spell check, all in one package. Many IE7 users use it. It's free and safe.
http://ie7pro.com/
5-01-2008 @ 2:21PM
James said...
This is pretty huge news, if they don't have an asterisk buried somewhere in it. It really just smells too good to be true...
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