Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine.Unifies Modern Scripting Across Firefox and Flash and Advances Innovation on the Web SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE ADBE Adobe Systems, Inc. (stock symbol) ) and the Mozilla Foundation, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Internet, today announced that Adobe has contributed source code for the ActionScript[TM] Virtual Machine, the powerful standards-based scripting language engine in Adobe[R] Flash[R] Player, to the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla will host a new open source project, called Tamarin tamarin: see marmoset. tamarin Any of about 25 species of long-tusked marmosets in the genera Leontopithecus (or Leontideus, according to some authorities) and Saguinus. Tamarins are 8–12 in. , to accelerate the development of this standards-based approach for creating rich and engaging Web applications. The Tamarin project will implement the final version of the ECMAScript Edition 4 standard language, which Mozilla will use within the next generation of SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox[R], Mozilla's free Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . As of today, developers working on SpiderMonkey will have access to the Tamarin code in the Mozilla CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. repository via the project page located at www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/. Contributions to the code will be managed by a governing body of developers from both Adobe and Mozilla. "Adobe's work on the new virtual machine is the largest contribution to the Mozilla Foundation since its inception," said Brendan Eich, chief technology officer, Mozilla Corporation, and creator of JavaScript. "Now web developers have a high-performance, open source virtual machine for building and deploying interactive applications across both Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is a widely distributed multimedia and application player created and distributed by Macromedia (a division of Adobe Systems). Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and the Firefox web browser. We're excited about joining the Adobe and Mozilla communities to advance ECMAScript." "This is a major milestone in bringing together the broader HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. and Flash development communities around a common language, and empowering the creation of even more innovative applications in the Web 2.0 world," said Kevin Lynch, senior vice president and chief software architect at Adobe. "By working with the open source community we are accelerating the adoption of a standard language for creating and delivering richer, more interactive experiences that work consistently across PCs and mobile devices." Tamarin implements the ECMAScript standard used by languages such as JavaScript, Adobe ActionScript, and Microsoft JScript, the primary languages developers use for building rich Internet applications This is a list of rich Internet applications. They are organised by their use. Communication
"There is nothing better for a standard than to have it implemented in multiple products," said Jan van den Beld, Secretary General, Ecma International. "Adobe is taking a huge step forward in driving standards-based Web development by open source licensing their virtual machine technology." Adobe's most recent virtual machine for ActionScript 3.0, a core component of Adobe Flash Player 9 released in June 2006, was built from the ground up to offer breakthrough performance and features, including more efficient memory utilization, faster application start-times, improved debugging and full runtime error reporting. Adobe Flash Player is installed on over 700 million Internet-connected PCs and mobile devices worldwide. The ActionScript Virtual Machine features a Just In Time (JIT JIT - dynamic translation ) compiler that translates ActionScript bytecode to native machine code for maximum execution speed. Now developers can leverage existing skills to quickly and easily build complex rich Internet applications increasingly required as users demand more interactive Web experiences. About Mozilla Foundation Established in July 2003, the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote choice and innovation on the Internet. The Foundation provides organizational, legal and financial support for the Mozilla open source software project. It coordinates a range of contributors, including the activities of its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. the Mozilla Corporation. The Foundation is based in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . Learn more about the Mozilla Foundation at www.mozillafoundation.org About Adobe Systems Incorporated Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com. [c] 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Adobe, the Adobe logo, ActionScript and Flash are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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