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July 07, 2007
Acme Flash Player for Vista
Acme Flash Player for Vista: No, there isn't such a thing. But after reading Rex Baldazo's opinion of the actual effects of adding a new Windows browser to the mix, I'm really glad we don't have to worry about testing against every different implementation of the basic file-format specification. Some estimate this adds 50% to development costs, and it probably contributes even more to ongoing maintainence costs. PDF is somewhere in the middle between SWF and HTML/JS -- some of the third-party PDF writers don't do things quite right (this was the worry behind Microsoft taking over default PDF-writing capabilities in Vista), and most PDF renderers do okay with basic PDF 1.0 documents, but pick and choose feature support for anything after 1994. I don't know of significant problems with third-party SWF writers, and accurate SWF9 rendering is a given on the overwhelming majority of worldwide computers today. Multiple implementations still serve a valid need in the overall ecology, but Rex here discusses the cost to developers in adding additional user-agents into the mix.
Posted by JohnDowdell at July 7, 2007 07:44 PM
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