>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
