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August 08, 2006
Downey on Flash
Downey on Flash: Mike Downey, product manager for Adobe's Macromedia Flash authoring tool, provides history and context in this WIRED article on Flash's first decade. (CNET and USA Today have a parallel article, talking with Kevin Lynch about some of the dynamics of adoption over the decade.) Mike discusses mobile, Linux and more, but I was struck by how this one paragraph seemed to sum it all up: "What we're trying to do with Flash is create a feature-rich run time that's consistent across all of the platforms. That's something that has not been the reality for other web technologies. Browsers have not been consistent -- even the Java Virtual Machine is rarely consistent on different platforms. For the past 10 years, we've been able to say, 'Here is a technology and a set of tools that allow you to create content once, then deliver it to a wide variety of platforms and know that it's going to work consistently.'"
Posted by JohnDowdell at August 8, 2006 01:55 PM
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