Adobe fights back
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Interesting read re: Adobe's "open screen" project and what it did/ didn't do.
http://www.linux.com/archive/fea…
Think for a second about what having a "web standard" really means. Everyone agrees on a common format, and it's left open to each browser developer to implement it as best they can. When a company delivers a shitty implementation (IE for instance), we can simply switch to an alternative. There is no company out there with special knowledge of how the EM tag is supposed to work or retaining the right to charge you fees for using it.
Whereas with Flash - yea, you can now output SWF with third party tools like FD which is great. Theoretically the player itself can now be implemented by third party companies - but in reality Adobe is so far ahead (and left out some critical info) that there is not going to be a "Flash player competitor," probably ever. And you can hear it from the people trying to develop competing products in that article above.
That means one corporation, controlling that particular aspect of the web, forever. Put the specifics of the Adobe/ iPad debate to rest for a sec, what's "open" about that? There are plenty of good things about Flash, but openness isn't one of them.