Macromedia: More FUD About SVG

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. "

Comments

Indeed

[fiannaFailMan]

A grammer error in the opening line, a photo that makes the guy look like he's smoking crack, and a writing style that makes him sound like a disgruntled MACR ex-employee. FUD from Macromedia? I think I know where the real FUD is coming from here.

That's it... no more Flash for me

[Foofoobar]

Dammit! Flash was one of those apps that has kept me from switching to Linux completely. But thanks to this kind of FUD, I'm dropping them completely. I'll build crap using Inkscape or something until they can play nice with others.

Re:NIV

[Monkelectric]

Obviously you know next to dick about flash. Flash is the worst designed mass marketed program *EVER*. I would shoot every macromedia developer with a gun if I had half a chance. They have made improvements in flash 5 and MX, but its still a disaster.