Richard Lewis wrote:
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/
Ah, I hadn't realised (so may evil licences, so little time...)
At least it's clear and unambiguous (3a says it all).
SVG ftw ;-)
Is there anything much flash can do that SVG can't? Is there a good reason SVG hasn't caught on?
I notice that Adobe are pushing SVG but their own demos don't seem to play with FF's inbuild SVG support, requiring Adobe's free SVG player. So it isn't *that* different....