Adobe fights back

Out of context: Reply #65

  • Started
  • Last post
  • 107 Responses
  • ukit0

    I hear a lot of people saying Flash is an open standard. Just to set the record straight, here's the official list of web standards. Let me know when you find Flash on that list.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/Overview

    Open standard in the web sense doesn't mean "the ability to author content from another company's software." It means the technology isn't owned and controlled by one company and is developed jointly by organizations working together. HTML, CSS and JS are web standards. Flash, Silverlight and Quicktime are not.

    The idea all along is that the data formats of the web should be free and open. Completely different from saying that the operating system or browser used to view it needs to be. So comparing the Flash format's "openness" to Apple's "openness" in terms of the iPhone OS seems pretty pointless.

    ukit 0Permalink
    UpvoteDownvote
    Flag
    • Let me know when you find Cocoa on that list.Pixter
    • Like I said, apples and orangesukit
    • Cocoa is not for web development.cramdesign
    Show [[ numHiddenNotes ]] more notesAdd Note
    SaveCancel

View thread