Comments on: Adobe opens door for creating alternative SWF players http://probertson.com/articles/2008/04/30/adobe-opens-door-fo-alternative-swf-players/ Thoughts on web development, user-centered design, code, etc. by Paul Robertson Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:58:04 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: bokel http://probertson.com/articles/2008/04/30/adobe-opens-door-fo-alternative-swf-players/comment-page-1/#comment-43278 bokel Thu, 01 May 2008 14:53:25 +0000 http://probertson.com/?p=171#comment-43278 Thanks for the info. Just a minor comment, which might be even wrong, but afaik Nicolas reverse engineered the swf format instead of using the specs due to the fact, that the license for the spec was somewhat restricted at this time. Cheers, Ralf Thanks for the info. Just a minor comment, which might be even wrong, but afaik Nicolas reverse engineered the swf format instead of using the specs due to the fact, that the license for the spec was somewhat restricted at this time. Cheers, Ralf

]]> By: Paul http://probertson.com/articles/2008/04/30/adobe-opens-door-fo-alternative-swf-players/comment-page-1/#comment-43266 Paul Thu, 01 May 2008 06:45:16 +0000 http://probertson.com/?p=171#comment-43266 Thanks for the insight, JD. I certainly wasn't a Macromedia insider in those days, so it's always enlightening to hear from someone who was! Thanks for the insight, JD. I certainly wasn’t a Macromedia insider in those days, so it’s always enlightening to hear from someone who was!

]]> By: John Dowdell http://probertson.com/articles/2008/04/30/adobe-opens-door-fo-alternative-swf-players/comment-page-1/#comment-43265 John Dowdell Thu, 01 May 2008 06:34:40 +0000 http://probertson.com/?p=171#comment-43265 Hi Paul, the scheduling of SWF specs at Macromedia was mostly a resources issue -- there was an all-hands push to launch, and then supplemental projects like localizations and documentation of file-format changes after that. I never saw evidence of competitive delays, myself. Tidbit: The early SWF SDKs included runtime code. This formed the basis for Oliver Debon's third-party Player work, which in turn formed the basis of other (all?) third-party runtimes. In a way, today's news brings things full-circle.... ;-) jd/adobe Hi Paul, the scheduling of SWF specs at Macromedia was mostly a resources issue — there was an all-hands push to launch, and then supplemental projects like localizations and documentation of file-format changes after that. I never saw evidence of competitive delays, myself.

Tidbit: The early SWF SDKs included runtime code. This formed the basis for Oliver Debon’s third-party Player work, which in turn formed the basis of other (all?) third-party runtimes. In a way, today’s news brings things full-circle…. ;-)

jd/adobe

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