Re: .net

Jon Harrop <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> I was under the impression that Flash was now open and could be
implemented
> very easily if you know what you're doing. Indeed, several people have
> asked me to do exactly that: write a Flash front-end for Smoke.

The actionscript language is relatively open and not too hard to
implement, but there are a bunch of proprietary and/or
difficult-to-implement media codecs that a heck of a lot of flash
sites depend on (e.g. Youtube).  Furthermore there is an upgrade
treadmill, so if you're running flash version N, you constantly
encounter sites saying "you need version N+1, click here to download".

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash