> Flash player is closed source and will always be so yes, Flex will always > depend on FP till some solution is found to output to another format > besides SWF.
To clarify this further, in practical terms we'll stay dependent on the Flash Player which will likely not be open sourced for a variety of reasons. There it the Tamarin project which is the ActionScript VM donated to the Mozilla Foundation, the SWF specs are available and there is no legal obstacle to anyone writing a SWF renderer. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Tamarin http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf.html There is thought about looking at different export targets. - Peter
