Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:56:14 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are we ready for Native Flash? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0707271556140.2643@hymn05.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <46AA5977.9080206@pcbsd.com>
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Kris Moore wrote: > > Hey, just wanted to give folks a heads up. I'm hearing that we may be > seeing a native Flash binary for FreeBSD in the future, depending on how > quick we can port over Tamarin: > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ > > They are working on a Linux port now, if anybody is interested in > getting a FBSD port done that will help us a TON in getting Adobe to > release Flash9 in a native FreeBSD format. No more Linux-emulation just > to surf the web! > > > -- > > Kris Moore > PC-BSD Software > http://www.pcbsd.com That will be nice, and you're more than welcome to start porting ;), but note the following line: Tamarin will support the forthcoming ECMAScript Edition 4 ("JS2") language and will be integrated into SpiderMonkey as part of the Mozilla 2 project, to be released in 2008. Brendan Eich's Roadmap Update for Mozilla 2 provides broad details on Mozilla 2 and Tamarin's role in this roadmap. So, I wouldn't get too anxious about this becoming production quality until 2k8 rolls around, unless the Mozilla group does really well putting Actionscript in place. -Garrett
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