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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. "

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  1. NIV by Queer+Boy · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Macromedia has an EXTREME case of non-invented-here that they have been fighting for YEARS. They are desperately trying to be Microsoft by locking people into their file formats, when they are late to market on abilities. Problem as I see it is that they don't realise their tools are wonderful and that's the reason to use Macromedia. Everything Director does can be done in QuickTime and was done in QuickTime BEFORE Director came out, it's just that the Director tool is so good.

    If they would just realise people would use their products to create QuickTime/SVG over Director/Shockwave, they would be OK.

    Macromedia has never been a first to market company, they just create great tools.

    --
    Not since Marie-Antoinette played milkmaid has looking simple and honest been so fake and complicated.
  2. Re:Cue the Flash-bashers... by rokzy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    (imo) flash is a bad technology because it fundamentally makes access to information difficult, once you have a flash based website there's no searching, selecting text, deep-linking etc.

    it also wastes bandwidth and client resources.

    if it weren't for Flashblock, flash would be a far greater annoyance/hinderence to me than even spam.