On Monday 01 October 2007 14:46:35 Mark Rogers wrote:
This is probably because (like with other web technologies) most of the content is put out there written "so that it works in the mainstream player/browser" rather than actually following the language correctly so that it works in other implementations. Writing an alternative so that it works (not just so that it meets the specs) is non-trivial.
Actually, this touches on one of the important criticisms of Flash: its not a standard in the common sense. Adobe publish the SWF file format specification under a licence which allows developers to create software which generates SWF files, but not to create software which views them:
http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/fileformat/license/
SVG ftw ;-)
Cheers, Richard