Re: FLASH: SWF not an open format????

[John Dowdell]

At 10:42 AM 3/31/0, ryan wrote:

> MacWEEK said:

> > As some observers at the Flashforward2000 conference noted,

> > however, not all of Flash's capabilities are open, such as

> > the use of "if-then" conditional statements; these capabilities

> > are not included in LiveMotion.


As Benny noted, the SWF 3.0 file format has been used by many over the past

two years, but the SWF 4.0 file format with advanced interactivity and

streaming MP3 was only published recently.


LiveMotion does use the MP3 audio compression, but the interactivity is

similar to what was in Flash 2.


jd







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