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Macromedia: More FUD About SVG

Posted by timothy on from the incentive-examination dept.

Robin Berjon writes "Macromedia recently announced that its latest version of Flash Lite (a limited Flash for mobile devices) was to support SVG Tiny 1.1, and support it fully (though no one has yet been able to verify that assertion). For a moment, the Web community wondered if they might be playing nice at last, after yielding to massive pressure from the mobile market to support W3C and 3GPP standards, or if they simply meant to use SVG as a trojan to get Flash into mobile devices. An article freshly published on Macromedia's web site clearly makes the case that they're after the latter, speading as much FUD as possible along the way. Thankfully, Antoine Quint decided to respond in a brief O'Reilly Net article in which he debunks Macromedia's marketing lies one by one, and expands on the wondrous features of SVG Tiny 1.1 and the shortly upcoming SVG Tiny 1.2 that make people drool before their mobile phones. "

5 of 392 comments (clear)

  1. Fighting dirty? of course! by Fire+Witch · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What do you expect from a company who specialises in the 2nd most obnoxious web advertisements known to man?

  2. Really who gives a sh1t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    A commercial company wants to screw open standards - so what else is new?

  3. Re:Linux is not an open standard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    What part of "open" did you not get?

    English creates compound expressions; "open standard" is like "iron wall" where open is not a modifier to "standard" (an adjunct in lunguistic terms), but a word which changes the entire noun (compliment in linguistics terms); in fact "open standard" is, linguistically, a single noun using two words.

    So, yeah, flash may be a "standard", but is it an "open standard"?

    (Yes, I know, teaching basic linguistics to the typical Slashdot poster is an exercise in futility),

  4. Re:Lose the trailer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who are you, a fuckin' moron? Like I grew up just south of 8th mile. Did you see what those asshole Black Panther's did to our Redford neighborhoods in the 60's? I had one of my best friends... raped and left to die! They burnt my dad's house down. Every black person should be howin' weeds in the cotton fields.

  5. Re:Lose the trailer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    stupid liberal titwit -- fucking learn your lessons the hard way -- let's see your family suffer at the hands of those ignorant negros.