[Trac #1103] web/flash unusable, even with old stuff

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#1103: web/flash unusable, even with old stuff
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 Reporter:  AlbertCahalan  |        Owner:  rsavoye
     Type:  defect         |       Status:  new    
 Priority:  blocker        |    Milestone:  Trial-1
Component:  web browser    |   Resolution:         
 Keywords:  flash          |  
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Comment (by rsavoye):

 Replying to [comment:6 jg]:

 > Competition is healthy. We're trying to level the playing field by
 seeing if we can get Adobe to at least open the Flash spec.  For Rob and
 others to have to reverse engineer flash is a terrible waste of time.

 There is a "Flash  Specification", but it only refers to ActionScript,
 which is basically identical to JavaScript. I doubt they'll ever release
 docs on their player internals, and we
 don't really care, as we wrote our own VM, and they are so different it
 wouldn't help much. The difficulty with Flash is all the obscure behaviors
 that aren't documented, and often Flash developers take advantage of these
 'bugs" for their applications.

 Yes, reverse engineering is a horrible waste of time, especially when the
 Adode EULA forbids any developer from working on Free Flash projects if
 they[ve ever installed the Adobe Flash plugin or IDE. Clean-room
 development is even slower and harder than regular reverse engineering.

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