There was an amusing incident in the Flash Player Internals session this morning at Adobe MAX Milan. An attendee asked engineer Jim Corbett about what he said was a long-standing (10 years) Flash bug. Apparently, sprites sometimes tear as they move across the screen.<\/p>\n
Corbett said he wasn’t familiar with the problem; but maybe it was a problem with the browser and that was why the bug had not been fixed.<\/p>\n
Silverlight doesn’t have this problem, said the questioner.<\/p>\n
Then we gotta fix it, said Corbett. <\/p>\n
It reminded me how much I have heard Microsoft mentioned hear at Max. The Adobe execs make constant jibes at Microsoft; and are keen to emphasise wins like the BBC switching away from a Microsoft solution (not Silverlight) to Flash and AIR for its iPlayer. <\/p>\n
It really is a war; and the winner for the time being is the user, as competition energises the development of these two Rich Internet Application platforms.<\/p>\n
There was an amusing incident in the Flash Player Internals session this morning at Adobe MAX Milan. An attendee asked engineer Jim Corbett about what he said was a long-standing (10 years) Flash bug. Apparently, sprites sometimes tear as they move across the screen. Corbett said he wasn’t familiar with the problem; but maybe it … Continue reading Adobe engineer: we gotta beat Silverlight<\/span>