FLASH: RE: FLASH 5: whatever will happen to the promissed SDK

[Damian Morton]

This is also an intresting point. Can we expect future versions of the Flash

format to also be "Open", and can we expect more of the same disembling

approach to this "openness".


I committed to Flash on the basis of the MM "Open" announcement. I think

Flash is a great technology, but its not so great that the MM approach to

developer relations and its so-called commitment to "openness" dont make me

wonder what other options there are.


If we can expect a 9-month delay between Flash players and Flash SDKs, im

not sure the whole deal is worthwhile. It would take less time to

reverse-engineer the damned format and come up with your own SDK, as several

people have done in their spare time.


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> O.K. David it's nice that you apologize (again ;-), but than we

> are waiting

> for more than 9 months now let's hope this time you really know if it is

> really coming out soon. By the way did your team learn from this and will

> the flash-5 'OPEN' format description (not the SDK) be available to other

> developers before Macromedia has put in to their new

> applications?  Or is it

> wishfull thinking on my site that flash ever will be a genuin

> 'open' format.

>

> I Hope so :-) ...I think everbody would benefit a great deal of this.

>

> Best regards,

> Benny

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