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chaostheory on Dec 10, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Flash can't win the Web application war

flash is a public document spec and Adobe allows other people to build editors and even players (which has been happening)

allenbrunson on Dec 10, 2008 [–]

the .swf format is open, but the .fla format is definitely NOT open. that makes it impossible for third parties to build competitors to adobe flash cs3/cs4.

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