Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine
I have no idea what this means right now, but it has been popping up all over digg.com today. “Adobe is going to open source their ActionScript engine and donate it to the Mozilla Foundation”:http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-11-07.html.
bq. Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and the Mozilla Foundation, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Internet, today announced that Adobe has contributed source code for the ActionScript™ Virtual Machine, the powerful standards-based scripting language engine in Adobe® Flash® Player, to the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla will host a new open source project, called Tamarin, to accelerate the development of this standards-based approach for creating rich and engaging Web applications.
I am not sure if this means they are open sourcing the entire Flash Player or just a small section of it. If it is just a small part of the player, I am not sure how this benefits Mozilla? Does this mean that I can now do Flash ActionScripting and expect it to run in Mozilla without having, or needing, the entire Flash player installed?
At the very least, it should be interesting to watch and see what this all means.
