2008/05/06 16:58:48.409 GMT-4
Moonlight Effect
Niente a che vedere con la licantropia ma, piuttosto, con i sani effetti della concorrenza (da parte di
Silverlight e del suo gemello
Moonlight) che si fanno sentire anche in casa Adobe:
Adobe is announcing the Open Screen Project
today. The press release mentions that it deals with "driving rich
Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile
devices, and consumer electronics." However, I can guarantee that the
part of this announcement that will be of most interest to Linux/open
source fans is likely to be these items
Ovvero, piu' in concreto:
- Removing restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications
- Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player
- Publishing the Adobe Flash® Cast™ protocol and the AMF protocol for robust data services
- Removing licensing fees - making next major releases of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR for devices free
Introducendo una semplice, ma fondamentale, differenza nel rapporto tra Flash e le sue implementazioni open-source:
Flash uses the SWF binary format
to deliver vector graphics, text, video, and sound. The related FLV/F4V
media container formats are often used separately by webcasters such as
YouTube, Yahoo! Video, and many others. But, while SWF and FLV
specifications have been published since 1998, associated license
agreements said developers could use this information only to create
software that could output the formats. In other words, you could
create tools that wrote SWF formats, but were not allowed to create a
player. As of today, this limitation has been scrapped, and developers
now are free to indulge in SWF playback.
Posted by: swarzy.2008/05/06 16:58:48.409 GMT-4
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