Re: FLASH: Flash 4 Player Source?

[John Dowdell]

At 8:55 AM 8/13/99, John Pattenden wrote:

> Can you let me know if the Flash 4 player source is available

> yet, or perhaps an estimate of when it will be available.


There are two related yet distinct things here:


--  The Flash file format is published, and as a regular file format can be

used by anyone for whichever purpose you wish:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open/spec/contents.html


--  Flash Players are available for zero-cost licensing to those developing

emerging platforms. This is not Open Source, and not publicly available as

the file format itself is. Latest info I have is that implementation is

still in development:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open/freesource.html


Rephrased, the file format is available to all today, and the upcoming

player kit is under development, with info available through the email on

that page.



Sidenote: For those interested in one example of what independent

developers have done with the published SWF file format, please see Olivier

Debon's list of Flash players, and the related links at:

http://www.geocities.com/TimeSquare/Labyrinth/5084/flash/download.html


jd






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