mozilla.com — Adobe and Mozilla today announced that Adobe has contributed source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla will host a new open source project, called Tamarin, to accelerate the development of this standards-based approach for creating rich and engaging Web applications.
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stmillerNov 7, 2006
"The current CVS version doesn?t compile cleanly out of the box on my PowerPC Mac, but I?m sure in a few days, once people realize how big of a deal this is, the project will get whipped into shape quickly."Whoa so we might have flash on PPC Linux? Word!
invaderNov 7, 2006
thanks CaffeineAddictthat helped clear it up a little better for me
petercooperNov 7, 2006
And if anyone wants to play with the source but isn't familiar with Mozilla's CVS structure:cvs -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co mozilla/js/tamarin
soulhuntreNov 7, 2006
Sounds like WPF is scaring them to death.
jqp123Nov 7, 2006
The majority of people are blissfully unaware of just how far MS is ahead in this area. Before you digg me down as just another MS shill, here's a clue: XBAP
mcprogrammerNov 7, 2006
@centinallThey will still be using Spidermonkey as the front-end (parser, compiler), with tamarin as the virtual machine. Eventually, they want to replace spidermonkey with a javascript compiler.
mdowneyNov 7, 2006
@deviatXI think you've confused the Flash Player's VM with the JavaScript engine in the Flash authoring tool. The reference to Flash using the SpiderMonkey engine that you pointed out is referring to the Flash authoring tool's JavaScript engine, which is used to power it's extensibility API (referred to as the JSAPI, or JSFL).Mike Downey | Flash Product Manager | Adobe Systems