Web 2.0 Conference: Flash and Firefox to unite - ProCreative - Macworld UK: “Adobe will contribute source code to the Mozilla Foundation as the two organisations aim to establish a standard scripting language that developers can use to create interactive applications for Flash Player and Firefox.”
I think this has the potential to be seriously cool, and on several aspects:
It’s cool for Mozilla and the Open Source community in general, to have such a powerful and ubiquitous web client platform as Open Source software.
It’s cool for web developers and users alike, in that it paints a future of convergence between Ajax, the HTML DOM and the ActionScript object model.
Of course, Adobe thinks it’s going to be cool for their baseline, as this will allow them to sell more server-side solutions and authoring tools.
This is not cool at all for Microsoft and IE, though.
The standard scripting language that Tamarin will implement in Firefox is ECMAScript 4, now being developed by standards body Ecma International. Sun Microsystems’ JavaScript and Microsoft’s JScript are both based on ECMAScript, which is currently in its third version.
Actually, JavaScript has nothing to do with Sun Microsystems, who own the Java trademark, but was invented at Netscape.
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