Archive for April, 2010

The Grand SWF Archive

Friday, April 30th, 2010

What if somebody would write a spider (which respects common conventions like robots.txt etc) that searches for and archives publicly available SWF files, and a service that makes graphical assets found in those SWFs (vector shapes, bitmap images, videos, fonts, etc) available for public browsing, similar to what the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine does? As [...]

“Flash is as open as HTML5″ – No, it isn’t.

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Lately, Adobe representatives and Flash fan boys alike became more vocal than usual about the alleged openness of Flash. This is probably spurred by the proposed feature set of HTML5, as well as the decisions of a certain vendor to ban Flash from some of their products, both potentially being threats to Adobe and the [...]