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Subject: Re: Flash as the Vector Standard on the Web?
From: steven warren
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 22:43:14 GMT

Why didn't Adobe ever get their act together with Postscript? There was
already software that used to run on Next machines called Display
Postscript, when the web came along. I sat there waiting, waiting... for
them to save us from bitmap only hell.

Did Flash license any of their vector code from Adobe?

-evilsteven


>I've heard Microsoft will be pushing their own vector animation format
>called Direct Animation. It's built into Explorer 4.0. Maybe Flash
>will support this format?
>
>-Sid
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:41:12 -0500
>From: John Croteau <croteauaterols [dot] com>
>To: flasheratmail [dot] chinwag [dot] com
>Subject: Flash as the Vector Standard on the Web?
>Reply-To: flasheratshocker [dot] com
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>Is MM moving in the right direction? Let's hope so.
>
>'But considering the momentum behind
>Macromedia's Flash, could we look there for a
>standard? Does the fact that Macromedia
>became a member of the W3C last month tell
>us anything? It wouldn't be surprising to see
>Netscape incorporate Flash as a native format
>in its browser, and Microsoft has been touting
>structured graphics as an integral feature of
>Internet Explorer 4.0. Could we be seeing the
>beginnings of a standards showdown, much
>like the current OpenType versus TrueDoc
>dilemma surrounding downloadable fonts?'
>
>The above is a quote from Jeffrey Veen in a new article at WebMonkey:
>Vector Graphics - Image Format of the Gods?
>http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/98/12/index0a.html?tw=eg199812
>
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