Runtime wars (2): Apple's answer to Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX « counternot... - The Diigo Meta page

• 29 Oct 08
  

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  • Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX. And wondered if Apple has an ace up its sleeve.
  • other companies are already bringing their plugins to Apple’s platforms, so the company may feel no urgent need to reinvent the wheel on Mac OS X.
  • Another “Apple should really…” item that refuses to die is the porting of core Apple media technologies to (at least) Windows, with a runtime for Cocoa. The “Yellow Box for Windows” which would have made write-once, deploy-anywhere possible still remains a dream of Cocoa developers.
  • Yet another option is #1 in Apple fans’ perennial Top Ten wishlist: buying Adobe (for Flash). This one’s quite unlikely
  • Finally, Apple may choose to leverage an open source project such as OpenLaszlo, capable of outputting to multiple runtimes:
  • One huge barrier to that approach is distribution, however. It’s easy for Microsoft to distribute Silverlight through its OS monopoly. Flash, which Adobe claims is on 98% of desktops, has an unrivaled uptake rate for upgrades. Sun has close relationships with mobile device manufacturers and carriers and Java already runs on hundreds of millions of phones.
  • Apple’s Trojan horse in multi-platform, multimedia runtime is a piece of open source technology that’s already on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Adobe Flex/AIR, iPhone, iPod touch, Nokia S60 smartphones and Google’s new Android/Open Handset Alliance, with 30+ partners around the globe: WebKit 3.0.
  • WebKit has come a long way since Apple’s adoption of the open source KHTML rendering engine and KJS libraries from KDE.
  • Client-side storage
  • Enhanced Rich Text Editing
  • Downloadable fonts
  • Style-able form controls
  • Advanced CSS styling
  • Faster JavaScript and DOM
  • HTML5 <audio> and <video>
  • Remember Apple makes money mostly by selling iPhones, AppleTVs, Macs and related services. To the extent that these devices can have access to non-propriatery runtimes, not controlled by competitors like Adobe or Microsoft, Apple would be happy to sponsor open source development, as it’s doing with WebKit.

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• 15 Aug 08
  

  digerateur

  RIA Apple WebKit WHATWG KHTML KJS KDE SQLite GoogleGears Flex Flash Sivlerlight JavaFX CoreX CoreImage CoreAnimation CoreAudio QuickTime Cocoa OpenLaszlo

• 18 Jun 08
  

  Gary Edwards

  WebKit is Apple's Trojan Horse! Excellent introduction to WebKit presented in the context of Adobe and Microsoft RiA's.

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  • Apple’s Trojan horse in multi-platform, multimedia runtime is a piece of open source technology that’s already on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Adobe Flex/AIR, iPhone, iPod touch, Nokia S60 smartphones and Google’s new Android/Open Handset Alliance, with 30+ partners around the globe: WebKit 3.0.

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