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Longhorn's Flash Killer?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-tech-i'd-love-to-see-die dept.

SunSaw writes "Erin Joyce reports on internetnews.com that "Top developers at Microsoft are working on a new graphics and animation toolset for Longhorn (the next generation of Windows) that could spell trouble for Macromedia's popular Flash MX and Director MX animation tools". Flash's yet-to-be-released competition from M$ is code named "Sparkle" but it wasn't demonstrated during Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last week. Is this the beginning of the end for Macromedia?"

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  1. Re:please oh please oh please oh please by AT · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wholeheartedly agree. I recommend this solution for mozilla users though: http://www.squarefree.com/userstyles/xbl.html

    It shows a place holder in each flash frame until you click on it to play the flash. This gives you the best of both worlds: flash is blocked by default, but where you actually want to see it, it is only a mouse click away.

  2. Re:Please, oh god, please by Drathos · · Score: 5, Informative
    ...a certain company called Microsoft bought some rights or something to Mosaic and it became Internet Explorer.
    Um.. MS licensed the tech from Spyglass for IE for a percentage of the sales, then proceeded to give away IE.

    Guess what?

    That means they paid nothing to Spyglass for Mosaic.

    True, there was a version of IE for Solaris, but it was extremely slow and buggy. IIRC, it never got past version 4.0, either.
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