>Somehow i always find this funny, people saying you can build your own flash 
>player because the swf format is open and we have tamarin.
>Where are the official specs of v11-v13 swf format then? Maybe i'm looking in 
>the wrong places. But AFAIK they're not publicized by Adobe.
>(at least no one answers on the forum about it see 
>http://forums.adobe.com/thread/878781 and on the site i can only find this:
>http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf.html)
>
>So yes you can start building a flash player running swf's that comply  with 
>the adobe specs that are 3 versions behind the current production release. 
>That is a ridiculous task. I think adobe is not so keen on giving those specs 
>away as many people tend to think. I heard Adobe promote about how open the 
>swf >format is. To me it feels a bit dishonest. If you want to promote the swf 
>format as open then you should release the specs at the same time as the 
>runtime playing it. >Not years later...

That's fair. I would also like to see the most modern version, however, based 
on the information we have and the existing code, I do not think it's a stretch 
to believe that a virtual machine that could run existing Flex application can 
be created. I am not suggesting we do so, nor am I saying that we have the 
specifications in the format for every modern feature. We don't disagree here.

Mike





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