Good stuff, yes all of us who actually knew flex and action script knew all the claims in the thoughts letter weren't actually true at the time. Lies! :) I did not know however that iPhone use the QuickTime plugin! Ha! Also, more security risks in Firefox, chrome and IE, and OSX than Flash, that's surprising.
David -----Original Message----- From: "Fréderic Cox" <coxfrede...@gmail.com> To: dev@flex.apache.org Sent: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 9:10 AM Subject: Re: "The Player", a case for an independent Flash Player That is a great document Jude On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:54 AM, jude <flexcapaci...@gmail.com> wrote: > I came across some more misinformation and decided to keep a document of > rebuttals and other info to refer back to when attempting to educate > people. I've posted it here, > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UYbS1t6FInwqC1luYceYLzXDnQJe3L0DSQFi7KlIa5g/edit?usp=docslist_api > > I'm trying to keep it unbiased. I need to add a pro's and con's section to > it. > > Feel free to use it and add to it (contact me for edit permissions). > > > On Tuesday, January 20, 2015, Stephane Beladaci < > adobeflexengin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > This is not an official Adobe answer as I am not and have never been on > > > the player team, plus Adobe has a policy of not releasing staffing > > > numbers. > > > > > > Noted, and agreed... that is why I am getting those number using other > > methods :) > > > > > > > Nick may have been right at one point in time when there was no > > > Adobe AIR and the Player only had to work on Mac and Windows without > > GPUs, > > > but OTOH, I am pretty sure that re-creating the Adobe runtimes from > > > scratch today would be a significant effort as the number of devices, > > > operating system versions, GPUs and other platform differences would > make > > > hardware abstraction a huge task. > > > > > > At this point I am not trying to define whether it is going to be easy > task > > or not, the harder I am told it will be, the more motivated I am to find > a > > way :) At this point what I am trying to define is > > > > 1/ how much we can reuse from what has been made open source over the > years > > 2/ what are the vital IP we will need to get from third parties and who > are > > those parties > > 3/ how much will need to be engineered on top of 1 and 2 to get a viable > > player running AS3 modern RIA on desktop browsers and mobile browsers. > > > > > > > > > > > IMO, that was a goal of the Open Screen > > > Project: to get the hardware and os vendors to take on the abstraction > > > load. And I believe there are still terms-of-use issues around > > > interpreting byte code on some of these platforms. > > > > > > > Funny you mention OSP, Adobe has abandoned the trademarks and I acquired > > the. ThePlayer will be supported by the Open Screen Project as part of > the > > Open Screen Foundation. The domain name will be openscreen.org. I am > also > > in the process of reaching out to every companies involved in the Adobe > > effort, starting with all CEO featured in this video: > > > > Top CEOs Advocate for Adobe Flash > > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CwI227m-hs> > > >
