Comments on: Read David Berlind on Adobe Tamarin http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/11/08/read-david-berlind-on-adobe-tamarin/ An industry analyst blog looking at software ecosystems and convergence Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:01:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Savio Rodrigues http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/11/08/read-david-berlind-on-adobe-tamarin/#comment-1986 Savio Rodrigues Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:39:37 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/wp/?p=773#comment-1986 Since the ActionScript will be included in Firefox under the MPL, then Microsoft could add it to IE and still keep IE under a commercial license, as per the terms of the MPL ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License</a> ). Or, couldn't Adobe, as copyright holders to the current code, make it available to Microsoft under a separate license? In either case, it's good to see Adobe getting into the spirit...even though I dread the growing use of Flash as a UI for web applications. Not because I’m a luddite, but because of usability issues and encouraging designs that go against users mental models of browser functionality. For eg: try using the Back button or the Firefox Back mouse gesture in a Flash driven site and see if the result is what you expected. ;-) Since the ActionScript will be included in Firefox under the MPL, then Microsoft could add it to IE and still keep IE under a commercial license, as per the terms of the MPL ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License ). Or, couldn’t Adobe, as copyright holders to the current code, make it available to Microsoft under a separate license?

In either case, it’s good to see Adobe getting into the spirit…even though I dread the growing use of Flash as a UI for web applications. Not because I’m a luddite, but because of usability issues and encouraging designs that go against users mental models of browser functionality. For eg: try using the Back button or the Firefox Back mouse gesture in a Flash driven site and see if the result is what you expected. ;-)

]]> By: Anne http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/11/08/read-david-berlind-on-adobe-tamarin/#comment-1985 Anne Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:22:19 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/wp/?p=773#comment-1985 That was a great piece, wasn't it? I had a massive rambling post started about how big software companies had to demarketize their stuff or have to deal with others demarketizing it for them... then I read Berlind's post and realized he said it better and all in the context of the news of the day. Sigh. What do you mean by let the market decide what flies and what doesn't out of Adobe's innovation glut? Doesn't that just amount to offering your products for sale and seeing who buys it? Business as usual? That was a great piece, wasn’t it? I had a massive rambling post started about how big software companies had to demarketize their stuff or have to deal with others demarketizing it for them… then I read Berlind’s post and realized he said it better and all in the context of the news of the day. Sigh.

What do you mean by let the market decide what flies and what doesn’t out of Adobe’s innovation glut? Doesn’t that just amount to offering your products for sale and seeing who buys it? Business as usual?

]]>