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Archive for August, 2008

Flashplayer and AIR Benchmark Test app

Posted by Nate Chatellier on August 19th, 2008

I’m currently using the Flashplayer in more of an embedded system configuration. We’re evaluating multiple hardware configurations to decide what hardware to use and we’re also evaluating multiple version of the Flashplayer to decide which Flashplayer to use. So I made a quick open source test app to help with this evaluation. It allows you [...]

Should Adobe follow the new ECMAScript 3.1 standard?

Posted by Nate Chatellier on August 15th, 2008

For background, read:

Standards, ECMAScript and representing the past
ActionScript 3 and ECMAScript 4
Ru Roh! Adobe Screwed By EcmaScript Standards Agreement
How will ECMAScript “Harmony” affect ActionScript 3?

Keith Peters just posed a good question, Why Standards?. On the one hand, standards are undeniably good, assuming that the point of a “standard” is that many adhere to it. It’s [...]