Comment Re:Open Source Flash Player? (Score 1) 520
"And why else would SVG exist than to give other vector-based drawing formats a run for their money?"
The misconception seems to be that Flash (swf) is simply a vectored drawing format. It is not. The player is more like a tiny, largely powerless virtual machine that runs bytecode at runtime, and is pretty much only capable of graphics display and http-based communications.
The misconception seems to be that Flash (swf) is simply a vectored drawing format. It is not. The player is more like a tiny, largely powerless virtual machine that runs bytecode at runtime, and is pretty much only capable of graphics display and http-based communications.
