Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Mon 27th Jul 2009 20:53 UTC
Adobe Flash. It's everywhere. Not all of us want it, but many are forced into submission simply because it's weaseled its way into a myriad of applied and common uses. This just makes all the worse the news that a vulnerability in Adobe Flash, Reader, and Acrobat applications is allowing malcontents to exploit computers with these products installed.
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2007-10-26
Good points.
One can perhaps see flash in two ways - one as the swf:s the Macromedia programs creates; timeline, tweens, events. The other way is to see it as a pure VM, just like for example Java. The latter way is how I use flash (with flex and flashdevelop).
The ubiquitous Google has released o3d:
http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/
...which, to some extent, can be seen as the 2nd case above.
Adding a timeline is possible right now, as o3d puts the code in js. So the day someone adds the sugar the flash vm generates, and possibly also a usable program to help creating end user content that uses the sugar, then flash might actually be threatened.
Edited 2009-07-28 12:22 UTC