Adobe Open Screen Project
Today Adobe announced the Open Screen Project, a combination of different moves towards open standards. They teamed up with a group of industry leaders and announced the following steps today:
- - Removing restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications
- - Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player
- - Publishing the Adobe Flash® Cast™ protocol and the AMF protocol for robust data services
- - Removing licensing fees - making next major releases of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR for devices free
All starting immediately.
Especially opening the doors to the video standards is pretty interesting for us video developers and reading the file specs revealed a lot of interesting information, because especially the h.264 codec is very complex stuff.
But also giving insight into the SWF format should bring some really interesting developments and applications in the future. We can build our own SWFs at runtime now, Great news!
But besides all of that, the most interesting part for me is, that Adobe has removed the licensing fees for the devices player. I think that’s a pretty smart move to (hopefully) boost the kinda sleepy flash market on devices a bit. And maybe it’s a reaction on what’s going on between Nokia and Microsoft’s Silverlight, a competitor I wouldn’t underestimate.
Found at Serge Jespers Blog. Go there for further information on Adobe’s Open Screen Project.
