Jul 4, 2008

Eliminating The Thorn In Flash

Adobe has finally eliminated the thorn in Flash. It is working with search industry leaders to make Flash content indexable. Flash content was not accessible to search engines, rather it was quite laborious to make it accessible, until now. [Continue]

Mar 31, 2008

Adobe AIR Debuts On Linux

Finally! Adobe AIR is now available on Linux, though it is not a full-featured release yet. The good thing is that this release includes the SDK and Flex Builder 3 along with the runtime. [Continue]

Feb 25, 2008

Adobe AIR Goes To 1.0, But Still Without Linux

Adobe is about to release AIR 1.0, which means that AIR will cross a huge milestone. AIR is a cross platform merge the desktop and the Web, and develop rich applications. I think this is a milestone not only for Adobe, but for the technologies which can offer webified applications. [Continue]

Dec 13, 2007

Adobe Open Sources BlazeDS, Boosts Flex And AIR

Adobe is trying to push Flash as a competitor for Ajax. Both these technologies have been the favorites in the Web 2.0 world. Adobe is open sourcing BlazeDS, a messaging technology that will help a Flex or AIR developer to communicate with the back-end distributed data. [Continue]

Apr 26, 2007

Flex Is Open

Adobe has open sourced Flex (press release). Good news for developers, and eventually it will be good for Adobe too. Adobe had already contributed to Tamarin and now it has make its name bolder in good books of a lot of developers. [Continue]

Jan 29, 2007

Adobe Opening PDF To ISO

Scoble broke the news that Adobe is opening up the specification of PDF. PDF is one of the early document types that worked across various platforms. Although it is commendable, I do not think it will cause new developments, tools like OpenOffice have supported PDF conversion for quite some time. [Continue]

Jan 17, 2007

Non-Beta Flash Player 9 For Linux

The non-beta Flash Player 9 version is now available for download. The press release says that Novell and Red Hat will package this version with the distributions. However, it is still not feature complete (via Ryan Stewart) and seems to be released because of demand for a non-beta version. [Continue]

Nov 22, 2006

Microsoft v/s Adobe Now?

Jonathan Allen discusses impact of XML Paper Specification (XPS). It stands in direct competition with Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). The major difference being that Adobe provides PDF tools while Microsoft is coaxing developers to provide XPS editors. [Continue]

Nov 7, 2006

Tamarin - A Contribution From Adobe

Ajaxian breaks this news about Adobe contributing source code from the FlashPlayer Scripting Engine to the Mozilla Foundation. This will take the form of a new project called Tamarin. It will continue to be used by Adobe as part of the ActionScript(tm) Virtual Machine within Adobe Flash Player. [Continue]

Oct 19, 2006

Flash Player 9 Beta For Linux

Flash Player 9 Beta is now available for Linux (via The Universal Desktop). Hopefully it will get some love from the Linux community.