Here is required reading for everyone wanting to hack on Swfdec. It’s a nice 280-page introduction on the topic. Go Adobe for publishing it. Keep up the good work.
I think it’s a smart move of Adobe to try to go a more open way in pushing Flash (and its successor AIR) in the embedded context. After all, there’s at least three competitors in the new browser wars about “rich content”: Adobe, Microsoft and the W3C. But then, my previous statements about the topic are still relevant I think.
Update: Since lots of people asked: I don’t expect this will effect Swfdec very much.
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Does this include a patent grant or license?
You write “I don’t expect this will affect Swfdec very much”, and the link says you say that because you already have the information. But I think you’re underestimating the effect. Programmers who work in litigious countries (like the US) will feel much more confident now that they can help swfdec without legal risk, and there’s a real spec, instead of reverse-engineered one, to test against.
They’ve released the FLV specs, but are they releasing the RTMP protocol information at all?